伏筆 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 伏笔 fúbǐ ㄈㄨˊ ㄅㄧˇ foreshadowing (literary device) foretaste of material to come (in an essay or story) Character by character 伏(fú)surname Fu 筆(bǐ)writing brush Other words read fúbǐ fubi with other tones 復辟 腹壁 輔幣 輔弼 附筆 All 8 words read fubi in any tone A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0