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Chinese symbol for “complicate”

复杂化
fù zá huà
Traditional: 複雜化
to complicate; to become complicated

The closest CC-CEDICT match for complicate is 复杂化 (fù zá huà), defined as: to complicate; to become complicated.

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Characters and stroke order

复 fù
again, repeatedly; copy, duplicate; to restore, to return
radical 35 ⼢ · 9 strokes
杂 zá
mix, blend; various, miscellaneous
radical 75 ⽊ · 6 strokes
化 huà
to change, to convert, to reform; -ize
radical 21 ⼔ · 4 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 复杂化.

WordPinyinMeaning
恢复 (恢復)huī fùto reinstate; to resume
复杂 (複雜)fù zácomplicated; complex
重复 (重複)chóng fùto repeat; to duplicate
修复 (修復)xiū fùto restore; to renovate; (computing) to repair (a corrupted file etc)
报复 (報復)bào fùto make reprisals; to retaliate; revenge; retaliation
杂志 (雜誌)zá zhìmagazine; measure word: 本 (běn), 份 (fèn), 期 (qī)
杂交 (雜交)zá jiāoto hybridize; to crossbreed
杂种 (雜種)zá zhǒnghybrid; mixed breed
文化wén huàculture; civilization

See also: Japanese symbol for “complicate”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.