復 fù

return; repeat; repeatedly

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

WORDS

一元復始 yī yuán fù shǐ a new year begins (idiom)
一去不復返 yī qù bù fù fǎn gone forever
丁巳復辟 dīng sì fù bì Manchu Restoration of 1917, see 張勳復辟|张勋复辟[Zhanɡ1 Xun1 Fu4 bi4]
不復 bù fù no longer; no more
中復電訊 zhōng fù diàn xùn Zoomflight Telecom (Chinese company)
來復槍 lái fù qiāng rifle (loanword); also written 來福槍|来福枪
來復線 lái fù xiàn rifling (spiral lines on inside of gun barrel imparting spin to the bullet)
修復 xiū fù to restore; to renovate; restoration; (computing) to fix (a bug)
光復 guāng fù Guangfu or Kuangfu township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县[Hua1 lian2 Xian4], east Taiwan; to recover (territory or power); the liberation of Taiwan from Japanese rule in 1945
光復會 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
光復鄉 guāng fù xiāng Guangfu or Kuangfu township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县[Hua1 lian2 Xian4], east Taiwan
克己復禮 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)
全復 quán fù completely; totally recovered; healed
再轉復 zài zhuǎn fù to transfer again
半復賽 bàn fù sài eighth finals
反反復復 fǎn fǎn fù fù repeatedly; time and time again
反復 fǎn fù variant of 反覆|反复[fan3 fu4]; repeatedly; over and over; to upend; unstable; to come and go; (of an illness) to return
同義反復 tóng yì fǎn fù tautology
嚴復 yán fù Yan Fu (1853-1921), influential Chinese writer and translator of Western books, esp. on social sciences
回復 huí fù to reply; to recover; to return (to a previous condition); Re: in reply to (email)
報復 bào fù to make reprisals; to retaliate; revenge; retaliation
報復心 bào fù xīn vindictiveness
報復性 bào fù xìng retaliatory
失而復得 shī ér fù dé to lose sth and then regain it (idiom)
完全癒復 wán quán yù fù complete recovery (after illness)
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