复

See also: 復, 複, 覆, and 夏

复 U+590D, 复 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-590D ← 夌 [U+590C] CJK Unified Ideographs 夎 → [U+590E]

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

复 (radical 35, 夊+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人日竹水 (OAHE), four-corner 8040₇, composition ⿳𠂉日夂(GJ) or ⿳𠂉日夊(HT))

Derived charactersEdit

• 復 腹 複

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 245, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 869, character 6
• Unihan data for U+590D

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		复

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 复
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (复) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
愎	*brɯɡ
鍑	*puɡs, *puɡ
覆	*pʰuɡs, *buɡs, *pʰɯːɡ, *pʰuɡ
復	*buɡs, *buɡ
椱	*buɡs, *buɡ
複	*buɡs, *puɡ
馥	*brɯɡ, *buɡ
腹	*puɡ
輹	*puɡ, *buɡ
蝮	*pʰuɡ
蕧	*pʰuɡ, *buɡ
复	*buɡ
鰒	*buɡ
澓	*buɡ

Etymology 1Edit

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fù (fu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fuk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: fù
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˋ
    • Wade–Giles: fu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fuh
    • IPA ^(key): /fu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fuk⁶
    • Yale: fuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fuk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fug⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /fʊk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: /bɨuk̚/▼

Rime
Character	复
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	屋 (4)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	房六切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/biuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/biuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buwk̚/
Li Rong	/biuk̚/
Wang Li	/bĭuk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯uk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fú

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-p(r)uk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*buɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	复
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fù
Middle Chinese	‹ bjuwk ›
Old Chinese	/*m-p(r)uk/
English	return
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	复
Reading #	1/1
No.	3554
Phonetic component	复
Rime group	覺
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	伏
Old Chinese	/*buɡ/

DefinitionsEdit

复

1. to go back

Etymology 2Edit

For pronunciation and definitions of 复 – see 復 (“to return; to repeat; etc.”). (This character, 复, is the simplified form of 復.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Etymology 3Edit

For pronunciation and definitions of 复 – see 複 (“to repeat; to double; to overlap; again”). (This character, 复, is the simplified form of 複.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Etymology 4Edit

For pronunciation and definitions of 复 – see 覆 (“to cover; to tip over; etc.”). (This character, 复, is the former (1964-1986) first-round simplified form of 覆.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

复 • (bok) (hangeul 복, revised bok, McCune–Reischauer pok, Yale pok)

same as 復

1. return
2. repeat
3. repeatedly

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

复 (hạ)

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