復 (fuk6 | fu4) : recover; revenge

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復

fuk6

fu4

[1] recover; resume; restore
[2] revenge; retaliate; avenge
[3] turn round/over; return; come back
[4] [adv] again; once more; anew

Additional PoS:

Stroke count: 12

Level: 3

Radical: 彳 (#60)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

復 / 复

This word has been viewed 11194 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 30th Apr 2013 05:03

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恢復 fui1 fuk6 hui1 fu4 = restore; recover; resume

復仇 fuk6 sau4 fu4 chou2 = revenge

收復 sau1 fuk6 shou1 fu4 = recover; recapture; retake

報復 bou3 fuk6 bao4 fu4 = to avenge

修復 sau1 fuk6 xiu1 fu4 = restoration

復活蛋 fuk6 wut6 daan6*2 fu4 huo2 dan4 = Easter egg

復活節 fuk6 wut6 zit3 fu4 huo2 jie2 = Easter; Easter Day; Easter Sunday

復興 fuk6 hing1 fu4 xing1 = to restore; to revive; to rejuvenate; to resurge; (placename) Fuk Hing

復活 fuk6 wut6 fu4 huo2 = revival; Resurrection

復辟 fuk6 bik1 fu4 bi4 = to recover one's authority
See all 53 compounds (CantoDict reports 58 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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目前的金融海嘯可能成為黃金復興的契機
This economic tsunami could well be the turning point for gold to be fashionable again.

呢個復活節係咪去北海道滑雪,重係十劃都未有一撇。粵
It's still far too early to tell if we are going skiing in Hokkaido this Easter.
[In this sentence, the third character 都 in the idiom 十劃都未有一撇 could be moved three spaces up so that the latter half of the sentence would become 都重係十劃未有一撇. The meaning would remain the same. ]

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Decimal representation of this word: 復
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