Keyword
to lean over
- to crouch
- to crawl
- to lie hidden
- to conceal
- Frequency
- #1893
- Strokes
- 6
Readings
fú
Mnemonic
A person 亻 acting like a dog 犬
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in characters
Used in vocabulary
伏
to lean over; to fall (go down); to hide (in ambush); to conceal oneself; to lie low; hottest days of summer; to submit; to concede defeat; to overcome; to subdue; …
起伏
to move up and down; to undulate; ups and downs
潜伏
to hide; to cover up; to conceal
埋伏
to ambush; to lie in wait for; to lie low; ambush
伏击
ambush; to ambush
伏特加
(loanword) vodka
伏特
(loanword) volt
危机四伏
danger lurks on every side (idiom)
伏笔
foreshadowing (literary device); foretaste of material to come (in an essay or story)
此起彼伏
up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession; no sooner one subsides, the next arises; repeating continuously; occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, conflicts, uprisings etc)
伏尔加河
Volga River
千伏
kilovolt
光伏
photovoltaic (e.g. cell)
伏兵
hidden troops; ambush
伏尔泰
Voltaire (1694–1778), French Enlightenment writer and philosopher
制伏
to overpower; to overwhelm; to subdue; to check; to control
潜伏期
incubation period (of disease)
伏羲
Fuxi, legendary Chinese emperor, trad. 2852–2738 BC, mythical creator of fishing, trapping and writing
伏法
to be executed
伏尔加格勒
Volgograd, city in Russia on the Volga River 伏尔加河 (Fú'ěrjiāHé)
蛰伏
hibernation; living in seclusion
设伏
to prepare an ambush; to waylay
降伏
to subdue; to vanquish; to tame
伏牛山
Funiu Mountains in southwestern Henan, eastern extension of the Qinling mountain range 秦岭山脉 (QínlǐngShānmài)