严复 (嚴復)
Yán Fù
Pinyin

Definition

严复 (嚴復)
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Yán Fù
  1. Yan Fu (1853-1921), influential Chinese writer and translator of Western books, esp. on social sciences

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

xiū fù
  1. 1 to restore
  2. 2 to renovate
  3. 3 restoration
  4. 4 (computing) to fix (a bug)
yán zhòng
  1. 1 grave
  2. 2 serious
  3. 3 severe
  4. 4 critical
huí fù
  1. 1 to reply
  2. 2 to recover
  3. 3 to return (to a previous condition)
  4. 4 Re: in reply to (email)
fù gǔ
  1. 1 to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration)
  2. 2 to turn back the clock
  3. 3 neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文
  4. 4 retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s)
fù xí
  1. 1 to review
  2. 2 revision
  3. 3 classifier: 次 cì

Idioms (18)

一元复始
yī yuán fù shǐ
  1. 1 a new year begins (idiom)
克己复礼
kè jǐ fù lǐ
  1. 1 restrain yourself and return to the rites (idiom, from Analects); to subdue self and observe proprieties
  2. 2 (any number of possible translations)
严以律己
yǎn yǐ lǜ jǐ
  1. 1 to be strict with oneself (idiom)
  2. 2 to demand a lot of oneself
严以责己宽以待人
yán yǐ zé jǐ kuān yǐ dài rén
  1. 1 to be severe with oneself and lenient with others (idiom)
严惩不贷
yán chéng bù dài
  1. 1 to punish severely (idiom)