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覆

fù

cover, turn over

Phonosemantic compound. 襾 represents the meaning and 復 represents the sound.

Components
襾 meaning component

襾  Meaning component

yà

  

cover

復 sound component

復  Sound component

fù

  

return

Evolution

覆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
覆 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
覆 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

复 (覆) 

fù

cover; tip over; return; reply; variant of 復|复[fù]; to reply to a letter

覆  

fù

to cover; to overflow; to overturn; to capsize

Most common words with 覆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

覆盖

to cover

覆

to cover

颠覆

to capsize

重蹈覆辙

to repeat a disastrous policy

天翻地覆

everything turned on its head

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pʰ(r)uk-s

phjuwH

fù

cover

*pʰ(r)uk

phjuwk

fù

turn over


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 10.2835% of movies

2082nd most common character in movies

1823rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

复

Unicode

U+8986

Shuowen

“覆，覂也。一曰蓋也。从襾，復聲。”


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