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反复

fǎn fù 3–4

repeatedly; over and over; to upend; unstable; to come and go; (of an illness) to return

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
反 · 复
Syllables
2
fǎn fù
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 4,626

Part of speech: d,v,vn

Character by character

  • 反fǎn4 strokesHSK 3reverse, opposite, contrary, anti
  • 复fù9 strokesHSK 2 traditional 復return; repeat; repeatedly

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 反复. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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