HSK 4 · Adjectives

复杂 fùzá “complicated” in Chinese

Traditional 複雜

What 复杂 means

  1. complicated
  2. complex

How to say 复杂

  • 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杂zá2nd tone, rising

复杂 in a sentence

  1. 我不想把简单的事情搞复杂。

    Wǒ bù xiǎng bǎ jiǎndān de shìqing gǎo fùzá.

    I don’t want to take a simple thing and make it complicated.

    Sentence #13885142 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这个表格好像有点复杂，你可以帮我填吗？

    Zhè ge biǎogé hǎoxiàng yǒudiǎn fùzá, nǐ kěyǐ bāng wǒ tián ma?

    This form looks a bit complicated. Could you help me fill it in?

    Sentence #433684 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 事情总比我们想的要复杂得多。

    Shìqing zǒng bǐ wǒmen xiǎng de yào fùzá de duō.

    Things are always much more complicated than we think.

    Sentence #2367543 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 复杂 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 杂 (zá) with each of its parts in a different colour
杂zámixed
  • 九nine · jiǔ
  • 木tree · mù

How to write 复杂

复 9 strokes · 杂 6 strokes

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

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

Words related to 复杂

Words with 复

复习fùxí · revise复印fùyìn · to photocopy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复兴fùxīng · revival

Words with 杂

杂志zázhì · magazine夹杂jiāzá · to be mixed with嘈杂cáozá · noisy杂技zájì · acrobatics杂交zájiāo · to hybridise

More words: Adjectives

诚实chéngshí · honest粗心cūxīn · careless低dī · low丰富fēngfù · to enrich富fù · rich干gān · dry关键guānjiàn · crucial point国际guójì · international

FAQs

复杂 (fùzá) means “complicated” or “complex”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it fùzá: fù with a 4th tone, then zá 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, 复杂 is written 複雜. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fuza with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 复杂 from the suggestions. Typing fuza into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
复杂 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.