伏 — kanji meaning “prostrated”
伏
prostrated, bend down, bow, cover, lay (pipes)
- Meanings
- prostrated, bend down, bow, cover, lay (pipes)
- On'yomi
- フク (fuku)
- Kun'yomi
- ふ.せる、ふ.す
- Name readings
- ふし、ふせ
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #1604 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 9
- Chinese reading
- fú — Chinese character page
Words with 伏
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 降伏 | こうふく koufuku | surrender; capitulation; submission |
| 潜伏 | せんぷく senpuku | concealment; hiding; ambush |
| 伏線 | ふくせん fukusen | foreshadowing |
| 待ち伏せ | まちぶせ machibuse | ambush; lying in wait for an ambush |
| 起伏 | きふく kifuku | undulation |
| 伏兵 | ふくへい fukuhei | ambush; troops in ambush |
| 山伏 | やまぶし yamabushi | yamabushi; practitioner of Shugendō |
| 伏せる | ふせる fuseru | to lay (something) face down; to place upside down; to turn over (face down) |
| 伏せ | ふせ fuse | lying down |
| うつ伏せ | うつぶせ utsubuse | lying face down; lying on one's face |
| 伏流 | ふくりゅう fukuryuu | subterranean stream |
| 伏し目 | ふしめ fushime | downcast look |
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