U+5FA9 "復" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

復

U+5FA9 "復" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meanings of to return, to recover, to repeat, or to restore, and it is pronounced as "fù" in Mandarin Chinese. This character appears in various East Asian languages including Japanese and Korean, where it carries similar semantic nuances, and it is commonly used in compound words such as 復活 (fukkatsu in Japanese, meaning resurrection) or 復旧 (fukkyū, meaning restoration). Historically, 復 traces its roots to ancient oracle bone inscriptions and bronze script, where its original form depicted a combination of the radical for walking or action and a phonetic component related to abundance or complexity, symbolizing the act of going back or doing something again. As a standard CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) character, it is frequently encountered in classical texts, modern writing, and technical contexts related to restoration or repetition.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5FA9
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	復
HTML Hex Encoding	復
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xBE 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5FA9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005FA9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5fa9

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive	B45F
kCCCII	213D6F
kCNS1986	1-5F26
kCNS1992	1-5F26
kCangjie	HOOAE
kCantonese	fuk6
kCihaiT	516.204
kCowles	747 875
kDaeJaweon	0695.150
kDefinition	return; repeat; repeatedly; hexagram ䷗
kEACC	213D6F
kFanqie	扶富房六
kFenn	545C
kFennIndex	144.06
kFourCornerCode	2824.7
kGB1	2420
kGradeLevel	3
kGSR	1034d
kHangul	복:0E 부:0N
kHanYu	20834.020
kHanyuPinyin	20834.020:fù
kHKGlyph	1282
kIICore	ATJHMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0695.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	20834.020
kIRGKangXi	0369.220
kIRG_GSource	G1-3834
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B45F
kIRG_JSource	J0-497C
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-DEC0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5C56
kIRG_TSource	T1-5F26
kIRG_VSource	V2-8B76
kJapanese	フクフウかえすかえるまた
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	KAERU KAESU MATA
kJapaneseOn	FUKU
kJis0	4192
kKangXi	0369.220
kKarlgren	53
kKorean	POK PWU
kLau	760
kMandarin	fù
kMatthews	1992
kMeyerWempe	592
kMojiJoho	MJ011335
kMorohashi	10183
kNelson	1627
kPhonetic	400 403
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3566+60.3.9
kRSUnicode	60.9
kSBGY	436.44 453.22
kSimplifiedVariant	"复" U+590D CJK Unified Ideograph-# "復" U+5FA9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	214.11
kSMSZD2003Readings	fù粵fuk6 fù粵fuk1 fù粵fau6
kTaiwanTelegraph	1788
kTang	*bhiuk bhiòu
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"復" U+5FA9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kXerox	244:350
kXHC1983	0343.052:fù