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HSK
to review / revision / CL:
HSK 2
variant of 反覆|反复
HSK 3
to recover; to revert; to return to (good health, normal condition etc) / variant of 回覆
HSK 4
to restore; to renovate / (computing) to repair (a corrupted file etc)
HSK 5
to reinstate / to resume / to restore / to recover / to regain / to rehabilitate
HSK 5
variant of 答覆|答复
HSK 5
to recover (health, economic) / to resuscitate / anabiosis
HSK 6
to recuperate / to recover (health) / to convalesce
HSK 6
variant of 復甦|复苏 / to recover (health, economic) / to resuscitate / anabiosis
HSK 6
to revive / to rejuvenate
HSK 7-9
to revive / (lit. and fig.) to come back to life / (religion) resurrection
HSK 7-9
to recover (lost territory etc) / to recapture
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
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
day after day
HSK 7-9
to check again; to re-examine
HSK 7-9
restored to one's official post / to send sb back to his former post
moreover
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)
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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
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to come back out of retirement; to get involved again after having withdrawn
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)
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)
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
to resume a meeting
repechage (supplementary qualifying round in sports)
rehabilitation / recuperate
Avengers (comics)
Easter
to resume classes
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
old illness recurs (idiom); a relapse / fig. to repeat an old error / the same old problem
to restore sth to its original state
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
no longer; not again
the Renaissance
Fudan University, Shanghai, abbr. for 復旦大學|复旦大学
to return to work (after a stoppage)
to be reborn / to recover / to come back to life / to regenerate
to remarry (the same person)
to return to school (after an interruption) / to resume one's studies
(idiom) to come back to life (after death)
to lose what one has just obtained (idiom)
lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence / sth malevolent returns to haunt one
(idiom) to retaliate
to restore old way / to return to the past
Zionism
to reconsider
to lose sth and then regain it (idiom)
(finance) to adjust the price, volume etc of a security (typically to account for a stock split or after new shares are issued)
to restore (deposed monarch, rule, system of laws, ecological system etc) / restoration
(idiom) over the years; year after year
to be advised / awaiting an answer
another visit to doctor / further diagnosis
a new year begins (idiom)
to reopen diplomatic relations
to calm down; to subside / to be cured; to be healed
to reply to a letter
rifle (loanword) / also written 來福槍|来福枪
anti-Qing revolutionary party set up in 1904 under Cai Yuanpei 蔡元培 / aka 復古會|复古会
to demobilize / demobilization
to restore (an ancient temple)
restrain yourself and return to the rites (idiom, from Analects); to subdue self and observe proprieties / (any number of possible translations)
to report back (to a superior)
to resume a post
to report on completion of a mission / debriefing
to recover one's power or authority / restoration (of a past regime)
Fudan University, Shanghai
rifling (spiral lines on inside of gun barrel imparting spin to the bullet)
to recover health quickly; Get well soon!
to revert to one's original surname
to refute
to return to normal
(after completing a game of chess) to replay the game, analyzing the players' moves / (stock market) to resume trading
backwards and forwards action (e.g. of piston or pump) / reciprocating motion
Guangfu or Kuangfu township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县, east Taiwan
to rehabilitate / to regain one's good name
consigned to eternal damnation / with no hope of reprieve
convalescence
Kai-Fu Lee (1961-), Taiwanese computer scientist and IT executive, founding president of Google China 2005-2009
to come back to life (after death)
Easter Island
(of a public transportation route) to resume operating
to re-examine; to recheck / (law) to conduct a judicial review; to retry (a case)
to come back / to return
Shen Fu (1763-c. 1810), Qing dynasty writer, author of Six Records of a Floating Life 浮生六記|浮生六记
Fushe, late Ming political and cultural movement led by Zhang Pu 張溥|张溥 and others, advocating the revival of ancient studies
spontaneous recovery
blood vengeance
tautology
to return / to come back
Baath Party
to germinate again
to test positive again (for COVID-19) after previously testing positive and then later, negative; to have a rebound positive test result

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