Chinese symbol for “relapse”
复发
fù fā
Traditional: 復發
to recur (of a disease); to reappear; to relapse (into a former bad state)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for relapse is 复发 (fù fā), defined as: to recur (of a disease); to reappear; to relapse (into a former bad state).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “relapse”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 旧病复发 (舊病復發) | jiù bìng fù fā | old illness recurs (idiom); a relapse; fig. to repeat an old error |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 复发.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 恢复 (恢復) | huī fù | to reinstate; to resume |
| 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) |
| 报复 (報復) | bào fù | to make reprisals; to retaliate; revenge; retaliation |
| 发展 (發展) | fā zhǎn | development; growth |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
| 发现 (發現) | fā xiàn | to notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect |
See also: Japanese symbol for “relapse”.
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.