Chinese symbol for “rehabilitate”
恢复
huī fù
Traditional: 恢復
to reinstate; to resume; to restore; to recover
The closest CC-CEDICT match for rehabilitate is 恢复 (huī fù), defined as: to reinstate; to resume; to restore; to recover; to regain; to rehabilitate.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “rehabilitate”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 平反 | píng fǎn | to redress (an injustice); to rehabilitate (sb whose reputation was unjustly sullied) |
| 恢复名誉 (恢復名譽) | huī fù míng yù | to rehabilitate; to regain one's good name |
| 昭雪 | zhāo xuě | to exonerate; to clear (from an accusation) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 恢复.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 恢宏 | huī hóng | vast; broad; generous; to develop; to enhance |
| 恢复原状 (恢復原狀) | huī fù yuán zhuàng | to restore sth to its original state |
| 恢弘 | huī hóng | variant of 恢宏 (huī hóng) |
| 天网恢恢 (天網恢恢) | tiān wǎng huī huī | lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73); fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not es |
| 恢复期 (恢復期) | huī fù qī | convalescence |
| 复杂 (複雜) | fù zá | complicated; complex |
| 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) |
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.