to fall prostrate

匐 character breakdown

archaic variant of 包[bao1]

= 丿 + : 勹 looks like an elephant: 丿 looks like the edge of the ear and ㇆ looks like the head and trunk.

Beelzebub (b) rides an elephant in front of the aorta (ao1), turning the soil with a plow (㇆). Lots of bananas (丿) are revealed in the turned earth.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: bubble wrap. Frieda Fox has to harvest a field of genetically modified mandarins in the space station's kitchen. The mandarins have been modified so that they listen to the tune Frieda Fox is playing on her flute; thus, as she plays her melody, the mandarins dance and wrap themselves in bubble wrap, hop into a box and are ready to be shipped to the labs on earth.

Characters with 匐 as component

see 蘿蔔|萝卜[luo2 bo5]

Words with 匐

to crawl / to creep

Sentences with 匐

匐 currently does not appear in any sentence.