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HSK
to repeat / to duplicate / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
to review / revision / CL:
HSK 2
variant of 重複|重复
HSK 2
variant of 復習|复习
HSK 2
to photocopy / to duplicate a document
HSK 3
repeatedly / over and over / to upend / unstable / to come and go / (of an illness) to return
HSK 3
complicated; complex
HSK 3
variant of 反覆|反复
HSK 3
to duplicate / to make a copy of / to copy / to reproduce / to clone
HSK 4
to recover; to revert; to return to (good health, normal condition etc) / variant of 回覆
HSK 4
to answer / to reply / Reply to: (in email header)
HSK 5
to reinstate / to resume / to restore / to recover / to regain / to rehabilitate
HSK 5
to restore; to renovate / (computing) to repair (a corrupted file etc)
HSK 5
variant of 答覆|答复
HSK 5
to recuperate / to recover (health) / to convalesce
HSK 6
to recover (health, economic) / to resuscitate / anabiosis
HSK 6
variant of 復甦|复苏 / to recover (health, economic) / to resuscitate / anabiosis
HSK 6
to revive / (lit. and fig.) to come back to life / (religion) resurrection
HSK 7-9
to revive / to rejuvenate
HSK 7-9
to restore (sth) to (its) former condition / to recover from illness / recovery
HSK 7-9
(of people who were estranged) to be reconciled / (of a couple) to get back together
HSK 7-9
complex / compound / composite / hybrid / to compound / to combine
HSK 7-9
to recover (lost territory etc) / to recapture
HSK 7-9
to check again; to re-examine
HSK 7-9
to make reprisals; to retaliate / revenge; retaliation
HSK 7-9
to recur (of a disease) / to reappear / to relapse (into a former bad state)
HSK 7-9
tangled and complicated (idiom)
HSK 7-9
day after day
HSK 7-9
Fuxing district of Handan city 邯鄲市|邯郸市, Hebei / Fuxing or Fuhsing township in Taoyuan county 桃園縣|桃园县, north Taiwan
to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration) / to turn back the clock / neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文 / retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s)
(linguistics) plural / (math.) complex number
to reconsider / to reexamine / to review (e.g. a report prior to accepting it)
to reuse
compound prescription (involving several medicines)
to avenge / vengeance
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *复* | 复* | *复
to go and return / to return / to resume / to return to a normal or original state / to repeat / again / to recover / to restore / to turn over / to reply / to answer / to reply to a letter / to retaliate / to carry out
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *复* | 复* | *复
to repeat / to double / to overlap / complex (not simple) / compound / composite / double / diplo- / duplicate / overlapping / to duplicate
to return to the same school and repeat a course from which one has already graduated, as a result of failing to get good enough results to progress to one's desired higher-level school
(of an audio device) to repeat a recorded phrase (e.g. for language learning)
to sit for the second round of a two-stage exam
Fudan University, Shanghai, abbr. for 復旦大學|复旦大学
(sports) semifinal or quarterfinal / to compete in a semifinal (or a quarterfinal)
lit. the cycle comes back to the start (idiom); to move in circles / the wheel comes full circle
(after completing a game of chess) to replay the game, analyzing the players' moves / (stock market) to resume trading
to be reborn / to recover / to come back to life / to regenerate
to restore sb or sth to its original position / to regain the throne / to reset (a dislocated joint, an electronic device etc) / reset
to reappear / to persist (in memory)
to re-examine; to recheck / (law) to conduct a judicial review; to retry (a case)
complicated
compound interest
double / multiple / compound / combined / double-entry (accounting)
another visit to doctor / further diagnosis
to repeat (one's own words or sb else's) / (in the classroom) to paraphrase what one has learned
consigned to eternal damnation / with no hope of reprieve
(idiom) to come back to life (after death)
to go and come back / to make a return trip / backwards and forwards (e.g. of piston or pump action) / to reciprocate (of machine part)
Guangfu or Kuangfu township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, east Taiwan
to recover (territory or power) / the liberation of Taiwan from Japanese rule in 1945
to return to school (after an interruption) / to resume one's studies
(idiom) over the years; year after year
lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence / sth malevolent returns to haunt one
to come back out of retirement; to get involved again after having withdrawn
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *复* | 复* | *复
variant of 復|复 / to reply to a letter
copy
to lose sth and then regain it (idiom)
compound phrase
to restore the Ming dynasty
to regain one's eyesight / (astronomy) emersion
to duplicate; to carbon copy
to demobilize / demobilization
to demobilize / to transfer to other tasks (of troops)
compound eye
to report on completion of a mission / debriefing
unstable / erratic / changeable / fickle
to resume classes
to reopen diplomatic relations
in the extreme (idiom) / incapable of further increase
to return / to come back
to restore old way / to return to the past
old illness recurs (idiom); a relapse / fig. to repeat an old error / the same old problem
restrain yourself and return to the rites (idiom, from Analects); to subdue self and observe proprieties / (any number of possible translations)
to remarry (the same person)
to lose what one has just obtained (idiom)
a new year begins (idiom)
to revert to old ways
to calm down; to subside / to be cured; to be healed
Baath Party
restored to one's official post / to send sb back to his former post
to reply to a letter
rifle (loanword) / also written 來福槍|来福枪
compound leaf (botany)
diphthong / compound vowel
variant of 複述|复述
to reprint (a work that has been out of print) / to reissue (a vinyl album as a CD, etc) / to replicate / to recreate / (computing) fork (loanword)
rifling (spiral lines on inside of gun barrel imparting spin to the bullet)
to come back / to return
to refute
moreover
rehabilitation / recuperate
to buy again

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