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CC-CEDICT

  1. 1.variant of 俯[fǔ]
  1. 1.to look down
  2. 2.to stoop

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  1. 1.to bow one's head
  2. 2.to bend down; to bow
  3. 3.to look from above; to overlook; to look down
  4. 4.to deign

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Etymology

In bronze inscriptions, phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *poʔ): phonetic 府 (OC *poʔ) + semantic 勹 (“person bending over”). In the modern script 勹 has changed to 亻. Compare perhaps Burmese ဖူး (hpu:, “to behold with reverence”).

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