复 fù

return; repeat; repeatedly

HSK 3 #426

DEFINITIONS

  • return
  • repeat
  • repeatedly
  • to go and return
  • to return
  • to resume
  • to return to a normal or original state
  • to repeat
  • again
  • to recover
  • to restore
  • to turn over
  • to reply
  • to answer
  • to reply to a letter
  • to retaliate
  • to carry out
  • to double
  • to overlap
  • complex (not simple)
  • compound
  • composite
  • double
  • diplo-
  • duplicate
  • overlapping
  • to duplicate
  • variant of 復|复[fu4]
  • to cover
  • to overflow
  • to overturn
  • to capsize

STROKES

WORDS

复利 fù lì compound interest
复写纸 fù xiě zhǐ carbon paper
复命 fù mìng to report on completion of a mission; debriefing
批复 pī fù to reply officially to a subordinate
复写 fù xiě to duplicate; to carbon copy
复信 fù xìn to reply to a letter
复合材料 fù hé cái liào composite material
复姓 fù xìng two-character surname such as 司馬|司马 or 諸葛|诸葛
一元复始 yī yuán fù shǐ a new year begins (idiom)
丁巳复辟 dīng sì fù bì Manchu Restoration of 1917, see 張勳復辟|张勋复辟[Zhanɡ1 Xun1 Fu4 bi4]
中复电讯 zhōng fù diàn xùn Zoomflight Telecom (Chinese company)
光复会 guāng fù huì anti-Qing revolutionary party set up in 1904 under Cai Yuanpei 蔡元培; same as 復古會|复古会
光复乡 guāng fù xiāng Guangfu or Kuangfu township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县[Hua1 lian2 Xian4], east Taiwan
克己复礼 kè jǐ fù lǐ restrain yourself and return to the rites (idiom, from Analects); to subdue self and observe proprieties; (any number of possible translations)
全复 quán fù completely; totally recovered; healed
共轭复数 gòng è fù shù complex conjugate number (math.)
再转复 zài zhuǎn fù to transfer again
半保留复制 bàn bǎo liú fù zhì semiconservative replication
半复赛 bàn fù sài eighth finals
合义复词 hé yì fù cí compound word such as 教室[jiao4 shi4], 國家|国家[guo2 jia1], but unlike 玫瑰[mei2 gui1], whose meaning is related to the component hanzi
同义反复 tóng yì fǎn fù tautology
严复 yán fù Yan Fu (1853-1921), influential Chinese writer and translator of Western books, esp. on social sciences
报复心 bào fù xīn vindictiveness
报复性 bào fù xìng retaliatory
完全愈复 wán quán yù fù complete recovery (after illness)
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