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

= 𠂉 + + : Mnemonic symbol: a photocopier.

Frieda Fox (fu) and the sun (日) have to wear high heels (夂) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). The high heels are locked, and they only have one key (𠂉). They know that the key is very fragile and can only be used once, so they use a photocopier (复) to create more keys so that both of them can be freed.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a shrine of rejuvenation.

Frieda Fox (fu) only has an old photocopy (复) of her favorite black sneaker (彳). She restores (復) her sneakers to the original state by putting the old photocopy into the shrine of rejuvenation (復) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
to repeat / to double / to overlap / complex (not simple) / compound / composite / double / diplo- / duplicate / overlapping / to duplicate

= 𠂉 + + : Mnemonic symbol: a photocopier.

Frieda Fox (fu) and the sun (日) have to wear high heels (夂) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). The high heels are locked, and they only have one key (𠂉). They know that the key is very fragile and can only be used once, so they use a photocopier (复) to create more keys so that both of them can be freed.
variant of 復|复[fu4] / to reply to a letter

= 𠂉 + + : Mnemonic symbol: a photocopier.

Frieda Fox (fu) and the sun (日) have to wear high heels (夂) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). The high heels are locked, and they only have one key (𠂉). They know that the key is very fragile and can only be used once, so they use a photocopier (复) to create more keys so that both of them can be freed.

= + : Frieda Fox (fu) wants to use the shrine of rejuvenation (復) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but someone has been using it for one hundred years already. First, Frieda uses knuckle dusters (覀) to knock the person over the head, but as he doesn't wake up Frieda looses her patience completely and just overthrows (覆) the whole shrine, throwing out the person.

复 character breakdown

"walk slowly" component in Chinese characters / see also 冬字頭|冬字头[dong1 zi4 tou2]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: In high heels, one can walk only slowly. James II of England (zh) is wearing high heels (夂) inside the space station's living room (Ø3). He's not only walking slowly (夂), he even slips on a banana (丿)! He's lucky to land on a boxing glove (又) though.
abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan
sun / day / date, day of the month

= + : Robinson Crusoe (r) is hiding from the sun (日) in an enclosure (囗) full of flutes (一) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
Character component without intrinsic meaning

𠂉 = 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: 𠂉 looks like a key.

Imagine a banana you can't open without putting a key into each of the holes of a flute which is painted on its peel.

Characters with 复 as component

to repeat / to double / to overlap / complex (not simple) / compound / composite / double / diplo- / duplicate / overlapping / to duplicate

= 𠂉 + + : Mnemonic symbol: a photocopier.

Frieda Fox (fu) and the sun (日) have to wear high heels (夂) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). The high heels are locked, and they only have one key (𠂉). They know that the key is very fragile and can only be used once, so they use a photocopier (复) to create more keys so that both of them can be freed.
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

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a shrine of rejuvenation.

Frieda Fox (fu) only has an old photocopy (复) of her favorite black sneaker (彳). She restores (復) her sneakers to the original state by putting the old photocopy into the shrine of rejuvenation (復) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).

= 𠂉 + + : Mnemonic symbol: a photocopier.

Frieda Fox (fu) and the sun (日) have to wear high heels (夂) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). The high heels are locked, and they only have one key (𠂉). They know that the key is very fragile and can only be used once, so they use a photocopier (复) to create more keys so that both of them can be freed.
abdomen / stomach / belly

= + : Frieda Fox (fu) catches the moon (月) taking photocopies (复) of his abdomen (腹) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
fragrance / scent / aroma
insect / poisonous snake (archaic)
perverse / obstinate / willful
parts of cart holding the axle
Haliotis gigantea / sea ear

Words with 复

to restore / to renovate / restoration / (computing) to fix (a bug)
to restore; to renovate / (computing) to repair (a corrupted file etc)
rifle (loanword) / also written 來福槍|来福枪
no longer / no more
repeatedly / time and time again
Guangfu or Kuangfu township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县[Hua1 lian2 Xian4], east Taiwan
to recover (territory or power) / the liberation of Taiwan from Japanese rule in 1945
rifling (spiral lines on inside of gun barrel imparting spin to the bullet)
anti-Qing revolutionary party set up in 1904 under Cai Yuanpei 蔡元培 / same as 復古會|复古会
Manchu Restoration of 1917, see 張勳復辟|张勋复辟[Zhang1 Xun1 Fu4 bi4]
Zoomflight Telecom (Chinese company)
Guangfu or Kuangfu township in Hualien County 花蓮縣|花莲县[Hua1 lian2 Xian4], east Taiwan
restrain yourself and return to the rites (idiom, from Analects); to subdue self and observe proprieties / (any number of possible translations)
completely / totally recovered / healed
complex conjugate number (math.)

Sentences with 复

复 currently does not appear in any sentence.