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to move up and down / to undulate / ups and downs
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
to ambush / to lie in wait for / to lie low / ambush
HSK 7-9
to hide / to cover up / to conceal
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *伏* | 伏* | *伏
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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
kilovolt
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 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)
hibernation / living in seclusion
(of cereal crops) to collapse and lie flat
to subdue / to vanquish / to tame
to hide / to lie low
the first of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏), which typically begins in mid-July and lasts 10 days
to prepare an ambush / to waylay
see 初伏
thoughts surging in one's mind (idiom) / different thoughts coming to mind
to overpower / to overwhelm / to subdue / to check / to control
to lie prostrate
to crouch low and bend forward (esp. in hiding or in wait)
photovoltaic (e.g. cell)
to crouch / to lie prone
to pacify / to calm / calm / quiet / to lie on one's belly
variant of 壓服|压服
variant of 收服
variant of 匍匐
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
to lie in wait / to ambush / to conceal sth
mega electron volt (MeV) (unit of energy equal to 1.6 x 10⁻¹³ joules)
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)
tribe of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people
to come to the end of the hottest period of the year (known as 三伏)
danger lurks on every side (idiom)
to mark the start of the hottest period of the year, known as 三伏天
the third of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏), which typically runs over the middle ten days of August
to obey / faithfully following instructions / to admit guilt
one climax follows another (of thrilling story)
to crouch (of animal)
electron volt (unit of energy used in particle physics, approximately 10⁻¹⁹ joules)


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