復刻

简 复刻 · 繁 復刻
Mandarin · pinyin fù kè

Meanings

  1. to reprint (a work that has been out of print)
  2. to reissue (a vinyl album as a CD, etc)
  3. to replicate
  4. to recreate
  5. (computing) fork (loanword)
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復
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刻
kè · carve, engrave; quarter hour
复
fù · return; repeat; repeatedly
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4–4 · fu4 ke4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

fau6 hak1 · fuk6 hak1

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verb

  1. to reprint a work that has been out-of-print
  2. (software engineering) to fork, to create a copy of a distributed version control repository
  3. (by extension) to reproduce (something old), to re-release (a software, etc.)

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復刻 · fu4 ke4
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Exact source record復刻 复刻 [fu4 ke4] /to reprint (a work that has been out of print)/to reissue (a vinyl album as a CD, etc)/to replicate/to recreate/(computing) fork (loanword)/