Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

復: restore, return to

Also: revert, resume

JLPT N212 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met

彳 carries the meaning · 复 gives the sound

12 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

フクfuku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 復習するふくしゅうするreview [v.t.]
  • 復活するふっかつするrevive
  • 復元するふくげんするrestore
  • 復讐するふくしゅうするtake revenge [v.i.]
  • 復職するふくしょくするbe reinstated
  • 往復するおうふくするmake a round trip
  • 回復するかいふくするrecover (from illness)
  • 反復するはんぷくするrepeat
  • 報復するほうふくするretaliate, take revenge

Also read また, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)彳 walk (meaning) + 复 repeat (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 復 (rev. 92689904), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Take the first step on your journey! These three quick strokes show the left side of a bustling street or a person taking a brisk step forward.”
More in the 彳 step story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
彳

Also built on step (彳)

All 19
复

Also built on 复

復 takes the 复 family's reading, フク (fuku).

復 gives its sound to

The family reading is フク (fuku). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read フク

9 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
復 restore · 彳
vs腹 abdomen · 月
復 has 彳 where 腹 has 月.
In ChineseSimplified 复 · traditional, as in Japanese · fù

Japan keeps the traditional form 復; mainland China simplifies it to 复.

Simplified
复 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
復 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin fù most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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