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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
- —起伏式accented word in Japanese pitch accent
- —雌伏雄飛biding one's time building up strength till finally grasping an opportunity to launch out and flourish
- —悪魔調伏exorcism; praying down evil spirits
- —伏竜鳳雛gifted young person who shows much promise; unrecognized genius; great person whose talent is hidden under a bushel
- —等伏角線isoclinic line
- —降伏強度yield strength; yield stress
- —潜伏期間incubation period
- —伏在静脈saphenous vein; saphena
- —伏線回収revealing something that was foreshadowed earlier in the story
- —無条件降伏unconditional surrender
- —伏線を張るto foreshadow; to drop a hint (of things to come); to take precautionary measures; to make contingency plans
- —圧密降伏応力consolidation yield stress
- —潜伏キリシタンunderground Christian; secret Christian (during the Edo period)
- —威伏awing into submission
- —蒲伏creeping; crawling; sneaking
- —屈伏yielding; submission; surrender; giving way; succumbing
- —承伏accepting; consenting; agreeing; submission; compliance; agreement; consent
- —伏罪penal servitude; submitting to a sentence; pleading guilty; undetected crime
- —伏竜suicide divers (part of the Japanese Special Attack Units during WWII)
- —慴伏prostrating oneself in fear; kneeling in fear; crouching in fear; prostration