俯

俯 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人戈人戈 (OIOI), four-corner 2024₀, composition ⿰亻府)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 106, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 722
• Dae Jaweon: page 226, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 182, character 9
• Unihan data for U+4FEF

Historical forms of the character 俯
Transcribed ancient scripts L14939 L14935 L14936 L14937 L14938
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

In bronze inscriptions, phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *poʔ) : phonetic 府 (OC *poʔ) + semantic 勹 (“person bending over”). In the modern script 勹 has changed to 亻.

Compare perhaps Burmese ဖူး (hpu:, “to behold with reverence”).^[1]

俯

1. to bow one's head
2. to bend down; to bow
3. to look from above; to overlook; to look down
4. (honorific) to deign

• (antonym(s) of “to bow one's head”): 仰 (yǎng)

For personal names, the character 頫／𫖯 (fǔ) should not be written as 俯 (fǔ) in simplified Chinese, e.g. 趙孟頫 / 赵孟𫖯 (Zhào Mèngfǔ).

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to bend down
2. to lie down

• Go-on: ふ (fu)
• Kan-on: ふ (fu)
• Kun: ふす (fusu, 俯す)、ふせる (fuseru, 俯せる)、うつむく (utsumuku, 俯く)、うつむき (utsumuki)、うつむけ (utsumuke)、うつぶく (utsubuku, 俯く)、うつぶき (utsubuki)、うつぶけ (utsubuke)、うつぶし (utsubushi)、うつぶせ (utsubuse, 俯せ)

俯 (eum 부 (bu))

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俯: Hán Nôm readings: phủ

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