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U+8907, 複
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8907

[U+8906]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8908]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 145, +9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中人日水 (LOAE), four-corner 38247, composition )

Derived characters

  • 𥵩

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1120, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34417
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1587, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3103, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+8907

Chinese

More information trad., simp. ...

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 複, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *buɡs, *puɡ): semantic (clothes) + phonetic (OC *buɡ, to return) – lined garment.

Etymology

Cognate with (OC *buɡs, *buɡ, “to return; again”) (Schuessler, 2007). See there for more.

(OC *pʰuɡ, “to turn over; to overturn”) is an aspiration causative/iterative form of (OC *puɡ), hence literally "to make something double over".

Pronunciation


Note:
  • hók - literary;
  • bô - vernacular "again".

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More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Definitions

  1. (literary) lined garment
  2. to repeat; to double; to overlap
  3. duplicate; double; overlapping
  4. complex
  5. again
       jiǎn   to double-check

Compounds

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