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複

Level VII of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 853 / 2,608

Duplicate

On’yomi
ふく
Kun’yomi
—
Radical
衣 Clothes (Kangxi 145)

Mid-frequency: not on every page, but regular in books and magazines.

More common than 械 (Contraption), less common than 詩 (Poem).

Clothes on the left wrap around a sun on a stool on the right -- wrapping the same clothes around a sun-stool creates an exact duplicate outfit.

In words

複雑 ふくざつ complexity,complicationN4
複数 ふくすう plural,multipleN2
複写 ふくしゃ copy,duplicateN2

複 is rank 853 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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