伏 — Chinese character
伏
fú
to crouch, to crawl, to lie hidden, to conceal
- Pinyin
- fú
- Radical
- 9 ⼈ (Man)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 亻 犬
- Formation
- ideographic — A person 亻 acting like a dog 犬
- Japanese
- 伏 as a kanji
Common words with 伏
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 起伏 | qǐ fú | to move up and down; to undulate |
| 潜伏 (潛伏) | qián fú | to hide; to cover up |
| 埋伏 | mái fú | to ambush; to lie in wait for |
| 伏击 (伏擊) | fú jī | ambush; to ambush |
| 伏特加 | fú tè jiā | (loanword) vodka |
| 伏特 | fú tè | (loanword) volt |
| 危机四伏 (危機四伏) | wēi jī sì fú | danger lurks on every side (idiom) |
| 伏笔 (伏筆) | fú bǐ | foreshadowing (literary device); foretaste of material to come (in an essay or story) |
| 此起彼伏 | cǐ qǐ bǐ fú | up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession; no sooner one subsides, the next arises |
| 千伏 | qiān fú | kilovolt |
| 光伏 | guāng fú | photovoltaic (e.g. cell) |
| 伏兵 | fú bīng | hidden troops; ambush |
English words written with 伏
伏 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Art of War 2 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 14 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 58
- Art of War 9.17
- Art of War 9.22
- Hexagram 13
- Mencius 1A.2
- Zhuangzi Transcendental Bliss
- Zhuangzi Man Among Men
- Zhuangzi The Great Supreme
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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