Chinese symbol for “complicated”
复杂
fù zá
Traditional: 複雜
complicated; complex
The closest CC-CEDICT match for complicated is 复杂 (fù zá), defined as: complicated; complex.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “complicated”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 繁 | fán | complicated; many |
| 繁复 (繁複) | fán fù | complicated |
| 庞杂 (龐雜) | páng zá | complex; complicated; many and varied |
| 曲折 | qū zhé | winding; (fig.) complicated |
| 疑难 (疑難) | yí nán | hard to understand; difficult to deal with |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 复杂.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 恢复 (恢復) | huī fù | to reinstate; to resume |
| 重复 (重複) | chóng fù | to repeat; to duplicate |
| 修复 (修復) | xiū fù | to restore; to renovate; (computing) to repair (a corrupted file etc) |
| 报复 (報復) | bào fù | to make reprisals; to retaliate; revenge; retaliation |
| 杂志 (雜誌) | zá zhì | magazine; measure word: 本 (běn), 份 (fèn), 期 (qī) |
| 杂交 (雜交) | zá jiāo | to hybridize; to crossbreed |
| 杂种 (雜種) | zá zhǒng | hybrid; mixed breed |
| 混杂 (混雜) | hùn zá | to mix; to mingle |
See also: Japanese symbol for “complicated”.
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.