Skip to content
Inkstone
Sign in

伏

Fú

Meanings

CC-CEDICT

Fú
  1. 1.surname Fu
fú
  1. 1.to lean over
  2. 2.to fall (go down)
  3. 3.to hide (in ambush)
  4. 4.to conceal oneself
  5. 5.to lie low
  6. 6.hottest days of summer
  7. 7.to submit
  8. 8.to concede defeat
  9. 9.to overcome
  10. 10.to subdue
  11. 11.volt

CC-CEDICT · CC BY-SA

Wiktionary

  1. 1.to lie prostrate
  2. 2.to crouch; to crawl
  3. 3.to ambush; to lie hidden
  4. 4.to hide; to conceal
  5. 5.to surrender; to yield
  6. 6.to accept; to submit; to bear; to endure
  7. 7.to subdue
  8. 8.to go down; to fall down
  9. 9.to remain; to wait for
  10. 10.to remove
  11. 11.residence
  12. 12.hottest days of summer
  13. 13.below expectation; worse than anticipated; trappy
  14. 14.horizontal wooden bar in front of a carriage chair
  15. 15.a surname, Fu
  16. 16.to hatch
  17. 17.only used in 匍匐 (púfú)

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 人 (“person”) + 犬 (“dog”) – meaning “prostrate”. * A dog at the side of a person. * A person adopting the position of a dog. Pronunciation 1 and 2 are related (Schuessler, 2007).

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Stroke order

Components

伏亻犬

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

More examples & usage (AI)

Synonyms

匿藏埋埋藏暗囥暗藏潛藏潜藏潛隱潜隐竄窜竄匿窜匿藏蹤藏踪藏身藏躲覕囥𰴕囥走覕走𰴕走閃走闪躲躲藏躲避逃逃僻逃匿逃避

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Derived terms

下伏三伏三伏天三伏潭不伏不伏手不伏水土不伏燒埋不伏烧埋不伏老不甘雌伏中伏乞伏二伏伏下伏不是伏乞伏事伏伺伏低伏位伏低做小伏侍伏兵伏几伏劍伏剑伏匿伏善伏地

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Related words

起伏 to move up and down埋伏 to ambush入伏 the hottest part of summer sets in伏笔 foreshadowing (literary device); foretaste of material to come (in an essay or story)光伏 photovoltaic (e.g. cell)设伏 to prepare an ambush二伏 中伏[zhōng fú]初伏 the first of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏[sān fú]), which typically begins in mid-July and lasts 10 days伏输 variant of 服输[fú shū]跪伏 to crouch (of animal)千伏 kilovolt伏地 to lie prostrate