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複

複

See also: 复 and 復

Translingual

Han character

複 (radical 145 衣+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中人日水 (LOAE), four-corner 38247, composition ⿰衤复)

References

  • KangXi: page 1120, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34417
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1587, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3103, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+8907

Chinese

trad. 複
simp. 复

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 複
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (复) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
愎 *brɯɡ
鍑 *puɡs, *puɡ
覆 *pʰuɡs, *buɡs, *pʰɯːɡ, *pʰuɡ
復 *buɡs, *buɡ
椱 *buɡs, *buɡ
複 *buɡs, *puɡ
馥 *brɯɡ, *buɡ
腹 *puɡ
輹 *puɡ, *buɡ
蝮 *pʰuɡ
蕧 *pʰuɡ, *buɡ
复 *buɡ
鰒 *buɡ
澓 *buɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 複 複
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 並 (3) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 尤 (136) 屋 (4)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 扶富切 方六切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bɨuH/ /pɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /biuH/ /piuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biəuH/ /piuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /buwH/ /puwk̚/
Li
Rong		 /biuH/ /piuk̚/
Wang
Li		 /bĭəuH/ /pĭuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯ə̯uH/ /pi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fòu fu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 複
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pjuwk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*p(r)uk/
English double, lined (garment)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 複 複
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 3539 3544
Phonetic
component		 复 复
Rime
group		 奧 覺
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 復 福
Old
Chinese		 /*buɡs/ /*puɡ/

Definitions

複

  1. to repeat, to double, to overlap

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

複

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
複
ふく
Grade: 5
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

複 ‎(hiragana ふく, romaji fuku)

  1. Abbreviation of 複試合.
  2. Abbreviation of 複勝式.

Prefix

複 ‎(hiragana ふく, romaji fuku-)

  1. diplo-, double

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

複 • ‎(bok, bu) (hangeul 복, 부, revised bok, bu, McCune-Reischauer pok, pu, Yale pok, pu)

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Vietnamese

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