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埋伏

mái fú

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

埋伏 (mái fú) means "to ambush; to lie in wait for; to lie low". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 埋伏 means

1. to ambush
2. to lie in wait for
3. to lie low
4. ambush

The characters in 埋伏

• 埋máito bury
• 伏fúto lean over; to fall (go down); to hide (in ambush)

Example sentences

• 我们刚刚收到情报，敌方正在前方两英里处埋伏。
  Wǒmen gānggang shōudào qíngbào, dífāng zhèngzài qiánfāng liǎng Yīnglǐ chǔ máifú.
  We've just received intelligence that the enemy is waiting in ambush two miles down the road.
• 江枫逃跑了，后来月奴生了两个儿子，但是他们中了十二生肖的埋伏，两个移花宫的公主突然来了，她们逼月奴自杀，不久后江枫也自杀了。
  Jiāng fēng táopǎo le, hòulái yuè nú shēng le liǎng gè érzi, dànshì tāmen zhōng le shí'èr shēngxiào de máifú, liǎng gè yí huā gōng de gōngzhǔ tūrán lái le, tāmen bī yuè nú zìshā, bù jiǔ hòu jiāng fēng yě zìshā le.
  Jiang Feng escaped and afterwards Yuenu gave birth to two boys, but the 12 zodiacs had been lying in wait and ambushed them. Suddenly two princesses from Yihua Palace appeared. They made Yuenu kill herself, and shortly after, Jiang Feng committed suicide.

Words containing 埋伏

• 打埋伏dǎ mái futo lie in wait; to ambush; to conceal sth
• 十面埋伏Shí miàn Mái fúAmbush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece); House of Flying Daggers…

Where 埋伏 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · má (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read mái fú correctly.
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