复 fù
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 夊 — to go slowly
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
复原
fùyuán
to restore; to recover; to reconstruct
Characters in this word
原 yuán
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 厂 — cliff
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 文物修复团队花了三年时间，才把残缺壁画复原到可展示状态。 Wénwù xiūfù tuánduì huā le sān nián shíjiān, cái bǎ cánquē bìhuà fùyuán dào kě zhǎnshì zhuàngtài. The cultural relics restoration team spent three years restoring the damaged mural to a displayable condition.
- 脱臼的手臂经过治疗，慢慢复原了。 Tuōjiù de shǒubì jīngguò zhìliáo, mànmàn fùyuán le. After treatment, the dislocated arm slowly returned to normal.
- 学者们根据残片，把这件古代陶罐复原了出来。 Xuézhěmen gēnjù cánpiàn, bǎ zhè jiàn gǔdài táoguàn fùyuán le chūlai. Scholars restored this ancient pottery jar from fragments.