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复活 fùhuó “to come back to life” in Chinese

Traditional 復活

What 复活 means

  1. to come back to life
  2. revival
  3. to revive
  4. (lit. and fig.) to come back to life
  5. (religion) resurrection

How to say 复活

  • 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 second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale活huó2nd tone, rising

复活 in a sentence

  1. 在游戏里，角色死了还能复活。

    Zài yóuxì lǐ, juésè sǐ le hái néng fùhuó.

    In the game, characters can come back to life after they die.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 这个老传统最近又复活了。

    Zhè ge lǎo chuántǒng zuìjìn yòu fùhuó le.

    This old tradition has recently been revived.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 复活 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 活 (huó) with each of its parts in a different colour
活huóto live
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 舌tongue · shéSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 舌 (shé) hints at the sound. Compare it with huó.

How to write 复活

复 9 strokes · 活 9 strokes

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

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

Words related to 复活

Words with 复

复习fùxí · revise复印fùyìn · to photocopy复杂fùzá · complicated恢复huīfù · to recover重复chóngfù · to repeat复制fùzhì · to duplicate反复fǎnfù · repeatedly答复dáfù · to reply报复bàofu · to retaliate修复xiūfù · to repair

Words with 活

活huó · to live活动huódòng · activity生活shēnghuó · to live活泼huópo · lively活跃huóyuè · active灵活línghuó · flexible干活儿gànhuór · to work活该huógāi · serves (someone) right快活kuàihuo · happy活力huólì · vitality

More words: Ideas & Concepts

分歧fēnqí · difference (of opinion)负担fùdān · burden幅度fúdù · range符号fúhào · symbol福气fúqi · good fortune高潮gāocháo · climax高峰gāofēng · peak高涨gāozhǎng · to rise

FAQs

复活 (fùhuó) means “to come back to life” or “revival”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it fùhuó: fù with a 4th tone, then huó with a 2nd 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, 复活 is written 復活. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fuhuo with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 复活 from the suggestions. Typing fuhuo into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
复活 is an HSK 6 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.