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to move up and down / to undulate / ups and downs
HSK 7-9
to ambush / to lie in wait for / to lie low / ambush
HSK 7-9
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)
HSK 7-9
hibernation / living in seclusion
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  *媧* | 媧* | *媧
surname Wa / sister of legendary emperor Fuxi 伏羲
Fuxi, legendary Chinese emperor, trad. 2852-2738 BC, mythical creator of fishing, trapping and writing
vodka (loanword)
foreshadowing (literary device); foretaste of material to come (in an essay or story)
to be executed
Stalingrad, former name of Volvograd 伏爾加格勒|伏尔加格勒 (1925-1961)
lying down / to lie prostrate / prone
to attend to / to care for (patients etc) / to look after / to wait upon / to serve / also written 伏侍, see also 服事
Fuxi or Fu Hsi, legendary Chinese emperor 2852-2738 BC, mythical creator of fishing, trapping, and writing
volt (loanword)
Voltaire (1694-1778), Enlightenment philosopher
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  *伏* | 伏* | *伏
surname Fu
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  *伏* | 伏* | *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
hidden stream / ground stream
to come to the end of the hottest period of the year (known as 三伏)
incubation period (of disease)
to lie in wait / to ambush / to conceal sth
the second of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏), which begins in late July and lasts either 10 or 20 days, depending on the Chinese calendar in that year
to be ambushed
the three legendary sovereigns of the third millennium BC: Suiren 燧人, Fuxi 伏羲 and Shennong 神農|神农, or 天皇, 地皇 and 人皇
ambush / to ambush
danger lurks on every side (idiom)
see 三伏
push-up (exercise)
to be executed
see 三伏
to prepare an ambush / to waylay
lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. aged person with great aspirations
tribe of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people
to vanquish dragons and tigers (idiom)
to mark the start of the hottest period of the year, known as 三伏天
to overpower / to overwhelm / to subdue / to check / to control
voltmeter
lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. old people may still cherish high aspirations
lit. a person before the legendary emperor Fuxi 伏羲 / person from ages immemorial / fig. untroubled person
to hide / to lie low
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  *羲* | 羲* | *羲
same as Fuxi 伏羲, a mythical emperor / surname Xi
to lie prostrate; to prostrate oneself (in veneration)
to lie prostrate
Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856), Italian scientist
one climax follows another (of thrilling story)
nocturnal / to hide by day and come out at night
see 初伏
to pacify / to calm / calm / quiet / to lie on one's belly
Kliment Voroshilov (1881-1969), Soviet politician and military commander
to lie prostrate
to subdue / to vanquish / to tame
Voodoo
hidden genius (idiom)
hidden troops / ambush
the three annual periods of hot weather, namely 初伏, 中伏 and 末伏, which run consecutively over a period from mid-July to late August
to bend over one's desk (writing, studying, taking a nap etc)
thoughts surging in one's mind (idiom) / different thoughts coming to mind
(of cereal crops) to collapse and lie flat
variant of 服侍
variant of 收服
the first of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏), which typically begins in mid-July and lasts 10 days
Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece) / House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋)
summer flood
to crouch low and bend forward (esp. in hiding or in wait)
volt-ampere (measure of apparent power in alternating current circuits)
variant of 服罪
variant of 壓服|压服
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  *虙* | 虙* | *虙
(archaic) variant of
variant of 服輸|服输
variant of 服辯|服辩
to travel at night and lie low by day (idiom)
mega electron volt (MeV) (unit of energy equal to 1.6 x 10⁻¹³ joules)
to subdue a tiger / fig. to prevail over sinister forces
variant of 伏羲
foreshadowing (literary device)
to crouch / to lie prone
to hide / to cover up / to conceal
the third of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏), which typically runs over the middle ten days of August
to crouch (of animal)
kilovolt
variant of 匍匐
Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
Fu Mingxia (1978-), Chinese diving champion
Volgograd, Russian city on the Volga River 伏爾加河|伏尔加河
Volga River
Funiu mountain range in southwest Henan, an eastern extension of Qinling range 秦嶺山脈|秦岭山脉, Shaanxi
nucleus accumbens (anatomy)
photovoltaic (e.g. cell)
photovoltaic device (e.g. solar cell)
giga electron volt GeV (unit of energy equal to 1.6 x 10⁻¹⁰ joules)
another name for 伏羲, consort of 女媧|女娲
(coll.) (neologism c. 2017, a play on 伏地魔) woman who devotes herself to supporting her little brother (assisting him with his studies, giving money to help him buy a house etc)
to obey / faithfully following instructions / to admit guilt
Ussuriisk city in Russian Pacific Primorsky region / previous names include 雙城子|双城子 and Voroshilov 伏羅希洛夫|伏罗希洛夫
to curl up / to lie with knees drawn up / to huddle up
Avogadro's number (chemistry)
electron volt (unit of energy used in particle physics, approximately 10⁻¹⁹ joules)
electronvolt (eV)


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