Chinese symbol for “resuscitate”
复苏
fù sū
Traditional: 復甦
to recover (health, economic); to resuscitate; anabiosis
The closest CC-CEDICT match for resuscitate is 复苏 (fù sū), defined as: to recover (health, economic); to resuscitate; anabiosis.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 复苏.
| 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 |
| 苏丹 (蘇丹) | sū dān | (loanword) sultan |
| 苏醒 (甦醒) | sū xǐng | to come to; to awaken |
| 苏打 (蘇打) | sū dá | (loanword) soda; (loanword) carbonated drink; soft drink |
See also: Japanese symbol for “resuscitate”.
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.