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

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。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     昭王南征而不复。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, 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)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Fifth grade 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]

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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. [2]

復: Hán Nôm readings: phục, phức, Phục

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