復

復 (Kangxi radical 60, 彳+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹人人日水 (HOOAE), four-corner 2824₇, composition ⿰彳复)

• 澓 㠅 蕧 覆 䨱 履 癁

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 369, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10183
• Dae Jaweon: page 695, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 834, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5FA9
• Unihan data for U+F966

Historical forms of the character 復
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *buɡs, *buɡ) : semantic 彳 (“walk”) + phonetic 复 (OC *buɡ, “repeat”).

Walk back and forth.

Compare Proto-Tibeto-Burman *m-p(j)up, whence Tibetan འབུབ་པ ('bub pa, “turned over or upside down”), Proto-Lolo-Burmese *pup (“to turn over; to search for”) (STEDT, Schuessler, 2007).

Within Chinese, cognate with 複 (OC *puɡ, “lined (garment); double”), 覆 (OC *pʰuɡs, “to cover”), 覆 (OC *pʰuɡ, “to turn over”) (Schuessler, 2007).

復

1. to return

   • 昭王南征而不復。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     昭王南征而不复。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Zhāo Wáng nán zhēng ér bù fù. [Pinyin]

     King Zhao went on an expedition to the south and never returned.

2. to recover; to resume

   康復／康复  ―  kāngfù  ―  to recover from an illness

   恢復／恢复  ―  huīfù  ―  to return or restore to a former state

3. to revenge; to avenge

   復仇／复仇  ―  fùchóu  ―  to avenge

4. to reply

   alt. forms: 覆 (fù)

5. 24th hexagram of the I Ching

復

1. (literary or Eastern Min) again

   復發／复发  ―  fùfā  ―  to relapse; to recur

   死灰復燃／死灰复燃  ―  sǐhuīfùrán  ―  to resurge (literally, “dead embers relight”)

   雨逿一匝復逿一匝 [Eastern Min, trad.]
   雨𰺲一匝复𰺲一匝 [Eastern Min, simp.]

   From: 2002, 李榮 (Li Rong), chief editor, 《現代漢語方言大詞典》 [Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects], Nanjing: Jiangsu Education Publishing House, →ISBN, page 890

   huô dâung siŏh cák bô dâung siŏh cák / [huɔ²⁴² tɑuŋ²⁴² suoʔ⁵ t͡sɑʔ²⁴ pou²⁴² tɑuŋ²⁴² suoʔ⁵ t͡sɑʔ²⁴] [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA]

   It rains again and again

   • 初極狹，才通人。復行數十步，豁然開朗。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     初极狭，才通人。复行数十步，豁然开朗。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 421, Tao Yuanming, 桃花源 (táohuāyuán) (The Peach Blossom Spring)

     Chū jí xiá, cái tōng rén. Fù xíng shù shí bù, huòrán kāilǎng. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 返景入深林，復照青苔上。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     返景入深林，复照青苔上。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 8th century, Wang Wei, 鹿柴

     Fǎnyǐng rù shēnlín, fù zhào qīngtái shàng. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• “復”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. restore
2. return to
3. revert
4. resume

• Go-on: ぶく (buku)
• Kan-on: ふく (fuku, Jōyō)
• Kun: かえる (kaeru, 復る); かえす (kaesu, 復す); また (mata, 復)

From Middle Chinese 復 (MC bjuwk).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [po̞k̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [복]

Wikisource 復 (eumhun 돌아올 복 (doraol bok))

1. Hanja form^? of 복 (“return”).

From Middle Chinese 復 (MC bjuwH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [pu(ː)]
• Phonetic hangul: [부(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

復 (eumhun 다시 부 (dasi bu))

1. Hanja form^? of 부 (“again”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

復: Hán Nôm readings: phục, phức, Phục

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