Yin Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Step (chì) Character: 復 Kangxi Stroke Count: 15 Page 369, Entry 01 Ancient character forms: Tang Rhyme (Tangyun), Collection Rhyme (Jiyun), Rhyme Compilation (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun). Pronounced fu. Shuowen (Shuowen Jiezi): To come and go. Guangyun: To return. Book of Documents (Shangshu): As the five ritual vessels are finished, then there is a return. Commentary: Return means to come back. Book of Odes (Shijing): Speaking of returning and thinking of coming back. Also, Rhyme Compilation (Yunhui): To answer. Book of Documents (Shangshu): Yue answered the King. Also, Rhyme Compilation (Yunhui): To report. Book of Rites (Liji): Wishing to have a report. Also, Rhyme Compilation (Yunhui): To report back on an order. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli): The reports of various officials. Note: To return, to reply. Commentary: This refers to when various ministers receive the King's order, carry it out, and return to report to the King. Also, summoning the soul is called fu. Book of Rites (Liji): The summoning of the soul is the way of expressing full love. Note: Fu refers to summoning the soul, hoping its essence and vital energy will return. Also, to restore or revive. Zhuge Liang, Memorial on the Expedition (Chushibiao): Restore the Han Dynasty and return to the old capital. Also, a surname. Zhengzitong: In the Yuan Dynasty, there was a person named Fu Jianxin. Also, a prefecture name. Book of Sui (Suishu): During the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Fu Prefecture was established; early in the Daye era, it was renamed Mian Prefecture. Also, Futao, a title of an official. Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan): Appointed to be the monarch's Futao. Note: Futao is the official in charge of clothing. Also, a name for clothing. Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan): The King wore a leather cap and a Qin Futao. Note: A feather garment sent by the State of Qin. Also, Jiyun, Yunhui, Zhenggyun. Pronounced fu. Jiyun: To double or repeat. Zhenggyun: To turn back and forth. Book of Changes (Yijing): Return and repeat their path. Book of Odes (Shijing): Look after me, turn back to me. Note: Meaning to revolve and return repeatedly. Also, Zhenggyun: Fu means to exempt. Book of Han (Hanshu): From the seventh rank of officials downwards, all are exempted from service for themselves and their households. Note: To exempt their bodies and within their household means they are all exempt from corvee labor. Also, interchangeable with the character meaning double or layered (fu). Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): Constructed a covered walkway from the E'pang Palace, crossing the Wei River to connect with Xianyang. Book of Han (Hanshu): The Emperor was on the covered walkway and saw the generals whispering to each other. Note: Because there is a path above and below, it is called a covered walkway. Also, interchangeable with the character meaning to cover (fu). Book of Odes (Shijing): Piling earth and excavating caves. Sound and Meaning: Fu means to pile earth on the ground. Shuowen: Written as fu (to cover). Also, Jiyun, Yunhui, Zhenggyun. Pronounced fu (falling tone). Jiyun: Again. Zengyun: A second time. Book of Odes (Shijing): King Wen had bright virtue, therefore Heaven gave the mandate again to King Wu. Also, rhyming with fa. Han Yu, Poem Inviting Yang to Zhifu: Ritual states that solitary study is narrow; the Book of Changes values not wandering far before returning. I write a poem to invite him to Zhifu, day and night holding hunger and thirst.