伏

Meaning

伏 centers on lowering oneself or something else: prostrating, bending down, bowing, covering, or laying pipes flat. The common thread is moving into a low, hidden, or face-down position.

• 降伏こうふく
  N1

  surrender; capitulation; submission

• 伏せふせ

  lying down

• 潜伏せんぷく

  concealment; hiding; ambush

• 伏線ふくせん

  foreshadowing

• 待ち伏せまちぶせ
  N1

  ambush; lying in wait for an ambush

• 起伏きふく
  N1

  undulation

• 伏せるふせる
  N1

  to lay (something) face down; to place upside down; to turn over (face down)

• 伏すふす

  to lie face down; to lie flat (on one's stomach); to fall prostrate

• 腕立て伏せうでたてふせ

  push-up (exercise); press-up

• 山伏やまぶし

  yamabushi; practitioner of Shugendō

• ひれ伏すひれふす

  to prostrate oneself (before)

• うつ伏せうつぶせ
  N1

  lying face down; lying on one's face

• 伏兵ふくへい

  ambush; troops in ambush

• 伏字ふせじ

  symbol used in place of a censored word (e.g. blank, circle, X, asterisk)

• 伏流ふくりゅう

  subterranean stream

• ねじ伏せるねじふせる

  to twist someone's arm and throw them to the ground; to hold (someone) down by twisting their arm; to wrestle (someone) to the floor

• 折伏しゃくぶく

  preaching down; breaking down someone's false beliefs through confrontation (in order to convert them to the right faith)

• 伏魔殿ふくまでん

  abode of demons; hotbed (of graft); pandemonium

• 雌伏しふく

  lying low (and awaiting one's chance); biding one's time; submitting at first (to then strike later)

• 埋伏まいふく

  impaction

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