The Chinese word **复古** is a compound word formed by combining two distinct characters: **复 (fù)**, which means "to return to," "to repeat," or "to restore," and **古 (gǔ)**, which means "ancient" or "old." Morphologically, it follows a common verb-object structure where the first character **复** acts as the verb ("to restore") and the second character **古** acts as the object ("the ancient"). Together, they logically and semantically combine to mean "to return to the old ways" or "to revive ancient styles," encapsulating the concept of retroism or a revivalist trend that looks to the past for aesthetic or cultural inspiration.