复读 (復讀)
fù dú
Pinyin
Definition
复读 (復讀)
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- to return to the same school and repeat a course from which one has already graduated, as a result of failing to get good enough results to progress to one's desired higher-level school
复读 (複讀)
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- (of an audio device) to repeat a recorded phrase (e.g. for language learning)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to restore
- 2 to renovate
- 3 restoration
- 4 (computing) to fix (a bug)
- 1 to reply
- 2 to recover
- 3 to return (to a previous condition)
- 4 Re: in reply to (email)
- 1 to return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration)
- 2 to turn back the clock
- 3 neoclassical school during Tang and Song associated with classical writing 古文
- 4 retro (fashion style based on nostalgia, esp. for 1960s)
- 1 to reinstate
- 2 to resume
- 3 to restore
- 4 to recover
- 5 to regain
- 6 to rehabilitate
Idioms (13)
一元复始
- 1 a new year begins (idiom)
克己复礼
- 1 restrain yourself and return to the rites (idiom, from Analects); to subdue self and observe proprieties
- 2 (any number of possible translations)
失而复得
- 1 to lose sth and then regain it (idiom)
得而复失
- 1 to lose what one has just obtained (idiom)
折节读书
- 1 to start reading furiously, contrary to previous habit (idiom)