複

音読おんよみ: フク

訓読くんよみ: かさ-ねる

画数かくすう: 14

部首ぶしゅ: ころもへん(衤)

Meaning

Multiple / Repeat / Compound

  • 複数ふくすう — multiple; plural
  • 複雑ふくざつ — complicated
  • 複製ふくせい — duplication
  • 重複ちょうふく — overlap; redundancy
  • 複写ふくしゃ — copy; reproduction
  • 複合ふくごう — compound; composite
  • 複眼ふくがん — compound eye

複 combines 衣 (clothing) with 复 (phonetic). Its earliest sense was “layered garments.” By extension it came to mean overlapping, repeating, or compounded — ideas still preserved in words like 複数 and 複雑.

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