Chinese symbol for “retaliatory”

报复性

bào fù xìng

Traditional: 報復性

retaliatory

The closest CC-CEDICT match for retaliatory is 报复性 (bào fù xìng), defined as: retaliatory.

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Characters and stroke order

报 bào

to announce, to report; newspaper; payback, revenge

radical 64 ⼿ · 7 strokes

复 fù

again, repeatedly; copy, duplicate; to restore, to return

radical 35 ⼢ · 9 strokes

性 xìng

sex, nature, character; suffix converting a verb to an adjective

radical 61 ⼼ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 报复性.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
报告 (報告)	bào gào	to inform; to report
报道 (報道)	bào dào	to report (news); report
报纸 (報紙)	bào zhǐ	newspaper; newsprint
日报 (日報)	rì bào	daily newspaper
情报 (情報)	qíng bào	information; intelligence
报导 (報導)	bào dǎo	to report (in the media); (news) report
恢复 (恢復)	huī fù	to reinstate; to resume
复杂 (複雜)	fù zá	complicated; complex
女性	nǚ xìng	woman; the female sex

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.