HSK 4 · Verbs

复印 fùyìn “to photocopy” in Chinese

Traditional 複印

What 复印 means

  1. to photocopy
  2. to duplicate a document

How to say 复印

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale复fù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale印yìn4th tone, falling

复印 in a sentence

  1. 请把每一页复印三份。

    Qǐng bǎ měi yí yè fùyìn sān fèn.

    Please make three copies of each page.

    Sentence #5613674 from Tatoeba

How 复印 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 复 (fù) with each of its parts in a different colour
复fùto go and return
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 日sun · rì
  • 夂go · zhǐ
The character 印 (yìn) drawn as one shape
印yìnto print

印 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 复印

复 9 strokes · 印 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

复印 (fùyìn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 复印 (fùyìn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 复印

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FAQs

复印 (fùyìn) means “to photocopy” or “to duplicate a document”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it fùyìn: fù with a 4th tone, then yìn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 复印 is written 複印. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fuyin with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 复印 from the suggestions. Typing fuyin into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
复印 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.