反复
fǎn fù 3–4
repeatedly; over and over; to upend; unstable; to come and go; (of an illness) to return
- 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
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
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.
- 反应fǎn yìngHSK 3
to react; to respond; reaction; response; reply; chemical reaction
- 恢复huī fùHSK 5
to reinstate; to resume; to restore; to recover; to regain; to rehabilitate
- 反fǎnHSK 4
contrary; in reverse; inside out or upside down; to reverse; to return; to oppose; opposite; against; anti-; to rebel; to use analogy; instead; abbr. for 切 phonetic system
- 反对fǎn duìHSK 3
to oppose; to be against; to object to
- 复杂fù záHSK 3
complicated; complex
- 反正fǎn zhèngHSK 3
anyway; in any case; to come over from the enemy's side
- 回复huí fùHSK 4
to reply; to recover; to return (to a previous condition); Re: in reply to (email)
- 重复chóng fùHSK 2
to repeat; to duplicate
- 违反wéi fǎnHSK 5
to violate (a law)
- 相反xiāng fǎnHSK 4
opposite; contrary
- 反而fǎn érHSK 4
on the contrary; instead
- 反映fǎn yìngHSK 4
to mirror; to reflect; mirror image; reflection; (fig.) to report; to make known; to render
- 康复kāng fùHSK 6
to recuperate; to recover (health); to convalesce
- 修复xiū fùHSK 5
to restore; to renovate; (computing) to repair (a corrupted file etc)
- 报复bào fùHSK 7
to make reprisals; to retaliate; revenge; retaliation
- 反抗fǎn kàngHSK 6
to resist; to rebel
- 复制fù zhìHSK 4
to duplicate; to make a copy of; to copy; to reproduce; to clone
- 反击fǎn jīHSK 7
to strike back; to beat back; to counterattack
- 答复dá fùHSK 5
to answer; to reply; Reply to: (in email header)
- 复习fù xíHSK 2
to review; revision
- 复合fù héHSK 7
complex; compound; composite; hybrid; to compound; to combine
- 复活fù huóHSK 7
to revive; (lit. and fig.) to come back to life; (religion) resurrection
- 反馈fǎn kuìHSK 7
to send back information; feedback
- 复苏fù sūHSK 6
to recover (health, economic); to resuscitate; anabiosis