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Pinyin
fú
Definition
conceal (ambush) / prostrate / submit
伏 [fú]
动词
1. 趴,脸向下,体前屈:lie prostrate.
例:~卧; ~案读书 (lie down; lean over the table to read).
2. 低下去:go down.
例:此起彼~ (one rises while the other falls).
3. 屈服,承认错误或受到惩罚:surrender; yield; knuckle under; admit.
例:~法; ~输; ~辩 (to admit an error; to acknowledge defeat; to confess).
4. 使屈服:subdue.
例:降~; 降龙~虎 (to bring down; to subdue the dragon and tiger).
5. 隐藏:hide; ambush.
例:~兵; 埋~ (to lay in ambush; to bury).
6. 农历划分夏季最炎热的三个阶段:the hottest days of summer in the lunar calendar.
例:~日; ~旱; ~暑; ~天 (dog days; hottest drought; hot summer; hottest days).
7. 姓:surname.
名词
1. 伏天; 伏日:the period after the summer solstice until the day before the second Dog Day.
例:入伏 (entering the dog days); 头伏 (first Dog Day); 数伏 (counting the dog days).
2. 电势差和电压单位“伏特”的简称:volt.
3. 居处:dwelling.
例:寡君越在草莽,未获所伏 (my lord has not yet found his dwelling in the grass).
Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece) / House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋[Zhang1 Yi4 mou2])
to lie in wait / to ambush / to conceal sth
see 此起彼伏[ci3 qi3 bi3 fu2]
Good fortune and misfortune
nocturnal / to hide by day and come out at night
to hide / to cover up / to conceal
to ambush / to lie in wait for / to lie low / ambush
up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession / no sooner one subsides, the next arises / repeating continuously / occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, conflicts, uprisings etc)
Funiu mountain range in southwest Henan, an eastern extension of Qinling range 秦嶺山脈|秦岭山脉[Qin2 ling3 shan1 mai4], Shaanxi
incubation period (of disease)
thoughts surging in one's mind (idiom) / different thoughts coming to mind
to prepare an ambush / to waylay
foreshadowing (literary device) / foretaste of material to come (in essay or story)
danger lurks on every side (idiom)
(of cereal crops) to collapse and lie flat
to bend over one's desk (writing, studying, taking a nap etc)
last ten days of July and first ten days of August, the second of 三伏 sān fú, three hottest periods of the year
to move up and down / to undulate / ups and downs
hibernation / living in seclusion
to curl up / to lie with knees drawn up / to huddle up