臥 — Chinese character
臥
wò
to crouch, to lie down
- Pinyin
- wò
- Radical
- 131 ⾂ (Minister)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 臣 人
- Formation
- ideographic — A person 人 laying on a bed 臣
- Japanese
- 臥 as a kanji
臥 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Art of War 1 · Mencius 2 · Zhuangzi 7
- Art of War 11.28
- Mencius 2B.11
- Zhuangzi Transcendental Bliss
- Zhuangzi How to Govern
- Zhuangzi On Letting Alone
- Zhuangzi The Circling Sky
- Zhuangzi Perfect Happiness
- Zhuangzi Robber Chê
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.