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Chinese symbol for “captive”

俘虏
fú lǔ
Traditional: 俘虜
to take prisoner; a captive (usu. a prisoner of war)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for captive is 俘虏 (fú lǔ), defined as: to take prisoner; a captive (usu. a prisoner of war).

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

俘 fú
prisoner of war; take as prisoner
radical 9 ⼈ · 9 strokes
虏 lǔ
prisoner; to capture, to imprison, to sieze
radical 141 ⾌ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 俘虏.

WordPinyinMeaning
战俘 (戰俘)zhàn fúprisoner of war
俘获 (俘獲)fú huòto capture (enemy property or personnel); capture (physics: absorption of subatomic particle by an atom or nucleus)
中子俘获 (中子俘獲)zhōng zǐ fú huòneutron capture
伤俘 (傷俘)shāng fúwounded and captured
捕俘bǔ fúto capture enemy personnel (for intelligence purposes)
虏获 (虜獲)lǔ huòcapture (people)
亡国虏 (亡國虜)wáng guó lǔsubjugated people; refugee from a destroyed country
捕虏岩 (捕虜岩)bǔ lǔ yánxenolith (geology)

See also: Japanese symbol for “captive”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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