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Mythic Mandarin

伏 (fú): meaning and stroke order

伏 (fú) means to lean over, to fall (go down), to hide (in ambush), to conceal oneself, to lie low.

伏

Simplified
伏
Traditional
伏 (same form)
Pinyin
fú

Stroke order of 伏

伏

  • Fú surname Fu
  • fú to lean over; to fall (go down)
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 伏

  1. fú
    • to lean over
    • to fall (go down)
    • to hide (in ambush)
    • to conceal oneself
    • to lie low
    • hottest days of summer
    • to submit
    • to concede defeat
    • to overcome
    • to subdue
    • volt
  2. Fú
    • surname Fu

Radical and structure

伏
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 6 strokes · 亻 on the left, 犬 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 伏

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).