To look down or face downward (as opposed to looking up)

To bow one's head or bend the body forward and down

to lower one's head; to bend forward

(literary) to gaze from a high place

polite prefix used before verbs indicating that the other person is looking down upon one with favor, as in 俯察 fǔ​chá or 俯就 fǔ​jiù

used in personal names, notably the Yuan dynasty painter Zhao Mengfu 赵孟頫 zhào​mèng​fǔ