HSK 5 · Verbs

恢复 huīfù “to recover” in Chinese

Traditional 恢復

What 恢复 means

  1. to recover
  2. to restore
  3. to resume
  4. to reinstate
  5. to regain
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to rehabilitate

How to say 恢复

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale恢huī1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale复fù4th tone, falling

恢复 in a sentence

  1. 爸爸恢复了健康。

    Bàba huīfù le jiànkāng.

    Dad has recovered his health.

    Sentence #8696375 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你知道怎么恢复已删除的文件吗？

    Nǐ zhīdao zěnme huīfù yǐ shānchú de wénjiàn ma?

    Do you know how to recover a deleted file?

    Sentence #5722730 from Tatoeba

  3. 暴风雨后，大海恢复了平静。

    Bàofēngyǔ hòu, dàhǎi huīfù le píngjìng.

    After the storm, the sea was calm again.

    Sentence #375389 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 恢复 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 恢 (huī) with each of its parts in a different colour
恢huīvast; expansive
  • 忄heart form of 心 · xīnMeaning part
  • 灰ashes · huīSound part

忄 hints at the meaning (heart); 灰 (huī) hints at the sound. Compare it with huī.

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

How to write 恢复

恢 9 strokes · 复 9 strokes

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

Words related to 恢复

Words with 复

复习fùxí · revise复印fùyìn · to photocopy复杂fùzá · complicated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

More words: Common Verbs

关闭guānbì · to close滚gǔn · to boil过期guòqī · to be overdue缓解huǎnjiě · to bring relief挥huī · to wave及格jígé · to pass an exam or a test集中jízhōng · to concentrate计算jìsuàn · to count

FAQs

恢复 (huīfù) means “to recover” or “to restore”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it huīfù: huī with a 1st tone, then fù 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, 恢复 is written 恢復. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huifu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 恢复 from the suggestions. Typing huifu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
恢复 is an HSK 5 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.