伏
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
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Dict coverage rank #909 U+4F0F
How 伏 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A person 亻 acting like a dog 犬
How to remember it
bend over · Heisig RSH #2075
人 person + chihuahua
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 伏 as their sound component
These characters all use 伏 (fú) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 伏 sound component | fú | to crouch, to crawl, to lie hidden, to conceal |
| 茯 | fú | China root; medicinal fungus |
Words containing 伏
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 电子伏特 | diàn zǐ fú tè | electronvolt (eV) |
| 伏尔加河 | Fú ěr jiā Hé | Volga River |
| 电子伏 | diàn zǐ fú | electron volt (unit of energy used in particle physics, approximately 10⁻¹⁹ joules) |
| 三伏天 | sān fú tiān | see 三伏[san1 fu2] |
| 吉电子伏 | jí diàn zǐ fú | giga electron volt GeV (unit of energy equal to 1.6 x 10⁻¹⁰ joules) |
| 伏尔加格勒 | Fú ěr jiā gé lè | Volgograd, city in Russia on the Volga River 伏爾加河|伏尔加河[Fu2 er3 jia1 He2] |
| 伏特加 | fú tè jiā | (loanword) vodka |
| 伏牛山 | Fú niú Shān | Funiu Mountains in southwestern Henan, eastern extension of the Qinling mountain range 秦嶺山… |
| 光伏器件 | guāng fú qì jiàn | photovoltaic device (e.g. solar cell) |
| 伏特计 | fú tè jì | voltmeter |
| 中伏 | zhōng fú | the second of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏[san1 fu2]), which begins in late… |
| 中伏 | zhòng fú | to be ambushed |
| 头伏 | tóu fú | see 初伏[chu1 fu2] |
| 伏地 | fú dì | to lie prostrate |
| 伏天 | fú tiān | see 三伏[san1 fu2] |
| 伏安 | fú ān | volt-ampere (measure of apparent power in alternating current circuits) |
| 伏法 | fú fǎ | to be executed |
| 三伏 | sān fú | the three annual periods of hot weather, namely 初伏[chu1 fu2], 中伏[zhong1 fu2] and 末伏[mo4 fu… |
| 出伏 | chū fú | to come to the end of the hottest period of the year (known as 三伏[san1 fu2]) |
| 平伏 | píng fú | to pacify; to calm; calm; quiet; to lie on one's belly |