复制
fùzhì · HSK 4
duplicate
📋 复 = repeat/again + 制 = make → make again = duplicate
复 carries the sense of doing something over (also in 复习 review, 重复 repeat); 制 means to make or manufacture (as in 制造). Together: to make again, i.e. copy or reproduce.
制 — knife 刂 + 未 (tree branches)
Originally depicted a knife 刂 cutting branches from a tree, showing the act of trimming or shaping wood. From this concrete sense of cutting to size came the meanings 'to make,' 'to manufacture,' and by extension 'to control' or 'regulate' — shaping things to a desired form.