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伏笔
fú​bǐ

foreshadowing

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
伏笔 伏筆 fú​bǐ
foreshadowing
Literary device where hints or clues are placed earlier in a text to prepare for later events or developments.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.030 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.42 per million

Cross-References

Same as

  • 伏线 fú​xiàn

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)