复明

復明

fùmíng

verb #36,294

Meanings

1 to regain one's eyesight
2 to recover sight

Characters

Examples

手术后他终于复明了。

Shǒushù hòu tā zhōngyú fùmíng le.

After the surgery he finally regained his sight.

这种新疗法让许多盲人重新复明。

Zhè zhǒng xīn liáofǎ ràng xǔduō mángrén chóngxīn fùmíng.

This new therapy lets many blind people see again.

Tips

memory

复 = 'again / restore' + 明 = 'bright / clear vision' → literally 'restore brightness', i.e. get one's sight back.

history

Capitalized 復明 (Fù Míng) historically also meant 'to restore the Ming dynasty', a slogan of Qing-era loyalists. Lower-case 复明 in modern texts almost always means recovering eyesight.

Stroke Order

复 fù

明 míng