Kanji1 / 6
伏 kanji
prostrated, bend down, bow, cover, lay (pipes)
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
フク
Kun readings
ふせるふす
Words with 伏
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —折伏preaching down; breaking down someone's false beliefs through confrontation (in order to convert them to the right faith)
- —倒伏lodging (of cereals)
- —伏鉢fukubachi; inverted bowl that sits above the base of a pagoda finial
- —伏角dip (angle that the direction of a compass needle makes with the horizon)
- —隠伏concealment
- —伏龍suicide divers (part of the Japanese Special Attack Units during WWII)
- —埋伏impaction
- —懾伏prostrating oneself in fear; kneeling in fear; crouching in fear; prostration
- —伏臥lying face down; lying on one's face; lying prostrate
- —伏撃ambush; surprise attack
- —拝伏prostration (in reverence); falling down on (one's) knees
- —伏するto crouch; to stoop; to bend down; to prostrate oneself; to lie down; to yield; to submit; to surrender; to hide; to conceal oneself
- —伏射濠sheltered trench
- —伏魔殿abode of demons; hotbed (of graft); pandemonium
- —伏流水underground water
- —潜伏性latency
- —潜伏期incubation period
- —埋伏歯impacted tooth
- —潜伏先hideout (e.g. of fugitive from justice); hiding place
- —起伏型accented word in Japanese pitch accent