| 一去不复返 |
yī qù bù fù fǎn |
gone forever |
| 一 |
yī |
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit |
| 去 |
qù |
to go / to go to (a place) / (of a time etc) last / just passed / to send / to remove / to get rid of / to reduce / to be apart from in space or time / to die (euphemism) / to play (a part) / (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth / (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker) / (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation) |
| 不 |
bù |
no; not so / (bound form) not; un- |
| 不复 |
bù fù |
no longer; not again |
| 复 |
fù |
to go and return / to return / to resume / to return to a normal or original state / to repeat / again / to recover / to restore / to turn over / to reply / to answer / to reply to a letter / to retaliate / to carry out |
| 复 |
fù |
to repeat / to double / to overlap / complex (not simple) / compound / composite / double / diplo- / duplicate / overlapping / to duplicate |
| 复 |
fù |
variant of 复 / to reply to a letter |
| 复返 |
fù fǎn |
to come back / to return |
| 返 |
fǎn |
to return (to) |