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HSK
to review / revision / CL:
HSK 2
to restore; to renovate / (computing) to repair (a corrupted file etc)
HSK 5
repeatedly / over and over / to upend / unstable / to come and go / (of an illness) to return
HSK 3
to repeat / to duplicate / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
(of people who were estranged) to be reconciled / (of a couple) to get back together
HSK 7-9
to reinstate / to resume / to restore / to recover / to regain / to rehabilitate
HSK 5
to photocopy / to duplicate a document
HSK 3
to recuperate / to recover (health) / to convalesce
HSK 6
complicated; complex
HSK 3
to answer / to reply / Reply to: (in email header)
HSK 5
to resume smoking (after giving up) / to relapse into smoking or drug abuse
to duplicate / to make a copy of / to copy / to reproduce / to clone
HSK 4
to recover (health, economic) / to resuscitate / anabiosis
HSK 6
to issue an official written reply (in response to a subordinate's report or request)
(math.) complex plane; Argand plane
reciprocating saw
complex / compound / composite / hybrid / to compound / to combine
HSK 7-9
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
gone forever
to restore sth to its original state
to revive / (lit. and fig.) to come back to life / (religion) resurrection
HSK 7-9
day after day
HSK 7-9
to revive / to rejuvenate
HSK 7-9
lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence / sth malevolent returns to haunt one
retaliatory
Avengers (comics)
to restore (sth) to (its) former condition / to recover from illness / recovery
HSK 7-9
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)
to revert to one's original surname
in the extreme (idiom) / incapable of further increase
to make reprisals; to retaliate / revenge; retaliation
HSK 7-9
to recover (lost territory etc) / to recapture
HSK 7-9
to reuse
tangled and complicated (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to recur (of a disease) / to reappear / to relapse (into a former bad state)
HSK 7-9
variant of 反覆|反复
HSK 3
(idiom) to come back to life (after death)
complexity
to check again; to re-examine
HSK 7-9
to recover; to revert; to return to (good health, normal condition etc) / variant of 回覆
HSK 4
moreover
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)
unstable / erratic / changeable / fickle
complicated
to return / to come back
compound final
to recover health quickly; Get well soon!
vindictiveness
old illness recurs (idiom); a relapse / fig. to repeat an old error / the same old problem
photocopier paper
to complicate; to become complicated
rifling (spiral lines on inside of gun barrel imparting spin to the bullet)
(of an audio device) to repeat a recorded phrase (e.g. for language learning)
repetitive
to rehabilitate / to regain one's good name
to come back out of retirement; to get involved again after having withdrawn
diphthong / compound vowel
variant of 重複|重复
HSK 2
to be reborn / to recover / to come back to life / to regenerate
to remarry (the same person)
convalescence
compound word, such as 玫瑰 or 咖啡, whose meaning is unrelated to the individual characters (Note: These characters are often not used independently in modern Chinese.)
replica / reproduction
Easter
to reopen diplomatic relations
rehabilitation / recuperate
to restore the Ming dynasty
to regain one's eyesight / (astronomy) emersion
to resume classes
bipinnate leaf (in phyllotaxy)
computational complexity (math.)
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)
variant of 答覆|答复
HSK 5
a new year begins (idiom)
eighth finals
Fudan University, Shanghai, abbr. for 復旦大學|复旦大学
Kai-Fu Lee (1961-), Taiwanese computer scientist and IT executive, founding president of Google China 2005-2009
a Zionist
lit. the end comes back to the start (idiom); the wheel comes full circle
lit. the cycle comes back to the start (idiom); to move in circles / the wheel comes full circle
to return to work (after a stoppage)
backwards and forwards action (e.g. of piston or pump) / reciprocating motion
compound word
(idiom) over the years; year after year
semiconservative replication
to lose what one has just obtained (idiom)
to re-examine; to recheck / (law) to conduct a judicial review; to retry (a case)
Fudan University, Shanghai
to reconsider / to reexamine / to review (e.g. a report prior to accepting it)
to recover one's power or authority / restoration (of a past regime)
compound interest
(sports) semifinal or quarterfinal / to compete in a semifinal (or a quarterfinal)
rifle (loanword) / also written 來福槍|来福枪
Fudan University, Shanghai, abbr. for 復旦大學|复旦大学
to reappear / to persist (in memory)
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
(idiom) to retaliate
(math.) complex variable

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