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).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 俘虏.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 战俘 (戰俘) | zhàn fú | prisoner of war |
| 俘获 (俘獲) | fú huò | to 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 huò | neutron capture |
| 伤俘 (傷俘) | shāng fú | wounded and captured |
| 捕俘 | bǔ fú | to capture enemy personnel (for intelligence purposes) |
| 虏获 (虜獲) | lǔ huò | capture (people) |
| 亡国虏 (亡國虜) | wáng guó lǔ | subjugated people; refugee from a destroyed country |
| 捕虏岩 (捕虜岩) | bǔ lǔ yán | xenolith (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.