to move up and down / to undulate / ups and downs

to hide / to cover up / to conceal

surname Fu

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

foreshadowing (literary device); foretaste of material to come (in an essay or story)

to be executed

kilovolt

to ambush / to lie in wait for / to lie low / ambush

lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. aged person with great aspirations

to lie prostrate

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)

the third of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏), which typically runs over the middle ten days of August

hibernation / living in seclusion

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

danger lurks on every side (idiom)

Fuxi or Fu Hsi, legendary Chinese emperor, trad. 2852-2738 BC, mythical creator of fishing, trapping and writing

ambush / to ambush

hidden troops / ambush

vodka (loanword)

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 first of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏), which typically begins in mid-July and lasts 10 days

volt (loanword)

Voltaire (1694-1778), Enlightenment philosopher

volt-ampere (measure of apparent power in alternating current circuits)

to be executed

to curl up / to lie with knees drawn up / to huddle up

Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece) / House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀｜张艺谋)

lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. old people may still cherish high aspirations

to overpower / to overwhelm / to subdue / to check / to control

to bend over one's desk (writing, studying, taking a nap etc)

(of cereal crops) to collapse and lie flat

to subdue a tiger / fig. to prevail over sinister forces

to prepare an ambush / to waylay

one climax follows another (of thrilling story)

to lie prostrate

see 初伏

Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856), Italian scientist

to mark the start of the hottest period of the year, known as 三伏天

to vanquish dragons and tigers (idiom)

to hide / to lie low

to subdue / to vanquish / to tame

to come to the end of the hottest period of the year (known as 三伏)

to crouch low and bend forward (esp. in hiding or in wait)

to pacify / to calm / calm / quiet / to lie on one's belly

summer flood

thoughts surging in one's mind (idiom) / different thoughts coming to mind

see 三伏

see 此起彼伏

hidden stream / ground stream

to crouch / to lie prone

variant of 服辯｜服辩

variant of 壓服｜压服

to crouch (of animal)

Fuxi or Fu Hsi, legendary Chinese emperor 2852-2738 BC, mythical creator of fishing, trapping, and writing

see 三伏

tribe of the Xianbei 鮮卑｜鲜卑 nomadic people

中伏

variant of 服侍

push-up (exercise)

Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)

to lie prostrate; to prostrate oneself (in veneration)

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

voltmeter

variant of 伏羲

foreshadowing (literary device)

variant of 服罪

Kliment Voroshilov (1881-1969), Soviet politician and military commander

lying down / to lie prostrate / prone

variant of 服輸｜服输

Voodoo

nucleus accumbens (anatomy)

hidden genius (idiom)

mega electron volt (MeV) (unit of energy equal to 1.6 x 10⁻¹³ joules)

photovoltaic (e.g. cell)

photovoltaic device (e.g. solar cell)

to crouch / to crawl / to creep

giga electron volt GeV (unit of energy equal to 1.6 x 10⁻¹⁰ joules)

to travel at night and lie low by day (idiom)

to lie in wait / to ambush / to conceal sth

variant of 收服

nocturnal / to hide by day and come out at night

to obey / faithfully following instructions / to admit guilt

incubation period (of disease)

Avogadro's number (chemistry)

electron volt (unit of energy used in particle physics, approximately 10⁻¹⁹ joules)

electronvolt (eV)