复

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

See also: 復, 複, and 夏

Translingual

Han character

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))

1. return
2. restore
3. reply

Derived characters

• 復 腹 複

See also

• 旬

References

• 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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Chinese

simp. and trad.		复

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 复
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

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 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fù (fu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fuk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • 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/

Definitions

复

1. (literary) to go back
2. Original form and simplified form of 復.

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 复 – see 複. (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 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 复 – see 覆. (This character, 复, is the 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.

Usage notes

• Abolished in 1986.

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Korean

Hanja

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

same as 復

1. return
2. repeat
3. repeatedly

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Vietnamese

Han character

复 (hạ)

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