Chinese Character Wiki
複

fù

double, lined (garment)

Phonosemantic compound. 衤 represents the meaning and 复 represents the sound.

Components
衤 meaning component

衤  Meaning component

yī

  

clothes

衤 is a component form of 衣.

复 sound component

复  Sound component

fù

  

return

Evolution

複 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
複 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
複 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
複 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

复 (複) 

fù

repeat, double, overlap; to repeat; to double; to overlap; complex (not simple); compound; composite; double; diplo-; duplicate; overlapping; to duplicate

Most common words with 複
Freq.
Word
Meaning

恢复

to reinstate

回复

to reply

复杂

complicated

重复

to repeat

报复

revenge

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*p(r)uk

pjuwk

fù

double, lined (garment)


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

14

Simplified

复

Unicode

U+8907

Shuowen

“複，重衣也。从衣，复聲。一曰褚衣。”


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