Chinese Word Entry
末伏| Mandarin (Zhuyin): | ㄇㄛˋ ㄈㄨˊ |
| Mandarin (Pinyin): | mò fú |
| Cantonese (Jyutping): | mut6 fuk6 |
| Definition: | middle ten days of August, the last of 三伏 sān fú, three hottest periods of the year |
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Chinese characters used in this word
| 末 | end, close, tip, powder, posterity, final, last, insignificant |
Readings
| Mandarin: | ㄇㄛˋ (mò) |
| Cantonese: | mut6 |
| Japanese: | マツ (matsu)、 バツ (batsu) / すえ (sue)、 うら (ura)、 うれ (ure) |
| Korean: | 말 (mal) |
| Vietnamese: | mạt |
| 伏 | prostrated, bend down, bow, cover, lay (pipes), crouch, crawl, lie hidden, conceal |
Readings
| Mandarin: | ㄈㄨˊ (fú), ㄈㄨˋ (fù) |
| Cantonese: | buk6, fuk6 |
| Japanese: | フク (fuku)、 フウ (fuu)、 ブク (buku) / ふ.せる (fuseru)、 ふ.す (fusu)、 したがう (shitagau) |
| Korean: | 복 (bog), 부 (bu) |
| Vietnamese: | phục |