伏

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

"person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 9)

dog / Kangxi radical 94

ambush / to ambush

hidden troops / ambush

see 三伏[san1 fu2]

tribe of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people

中伏[zhong1 fu2]

variant of 服侍[fu2 shi5]

to lie prostrate

lying down / to lie prostrate / prone

the three annual periods of hot weather, namely 初伏[chu1 fu2], 中伏[zhong1 fu2] and 末伏[mo4 fu2], which run consecutively over a period from mid-July to late August

the second of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏[san1 fu2]), which begins in late July and lasts either 10 or 20 days, depending on the Chinese calendar in that year

to be ambushed