Chinese symbol for “recover”
回复
huí fù
Traditional: 回復
to recover; to revert; to return to (good health, normal condition etc); variant of 回覆 (huí fù)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for recover is 回复 (huí fù), defined as: to recover; to revert; to return to (good health, normal condition etc); variant of 回覆 (huí fù).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “recover”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 复苏 (復甦) | fù sū | to recover (health, economic); to resuscitate |
| 收复 (收復) | shōu fù | to recover (lost territory etc); to recapture |
| 光复 (光復) | guāng fù | to recover (territory or power); the liberation of Taiwan from Japanese rule in 1945 |
| 收缴 (收繳) | shōu jiǎo | to recover (illegally obtained property); to seize |
| 追回 | zhuī huí | to recover (sth lost or stolen); to get back |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 回复.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 回来 (回來) | huí lai | to return; to come back |
| 回到 | huí dào | to return to |
| 回家 | huí jiā | to return home |
| 回答 | huí dá | to reply; to answer; reply; answer |
| 回应 (回應) | huí yìng | to respond; response |
| 回去 | huí qu | to return; to go back |
| 恢复 (恢復) | huī fù | to reinstate; to resume |
| 复杂 (複雜) | fù zá | complicated; complex |
See also: Japanese symbol for “recover”.
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.