fù
return
Phonosemantic compound. 彳 represents the meaning and 复 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[N]-pruk-s | bjuwH | fù | again |
*m-p(r)uk | bjuwk | fù | return |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 72.9137% of movies
517th most common character in movies
426th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5FA9 |
Shuowen | “復,往來也。从彳,复聲。” |
Sources
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