反来复去

反来复去 in English

fǎn lái fù qù: (idiom) To turn back and forth. Describes repeated movement or repetition.

Character breakdown

反 fǎn contrary
来來 lái to come
复覆 fù to go and return
去 qù to go

Stroke order

Le caractère 反 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 反

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 来 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 来

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 复 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 复

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 去 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 去

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

反

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 13 forms

来

These are the forms of 來, the traditional character: 来 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 17 forms

复

Oracle bone script 商
Small seal script
See all 5 forms

去

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 21 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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