夫 fū
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fū
noun
a man; a male adult
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CCD '夫' fū 2; Guoyu '夫' fū n 1; Kroll 2015 '夫' fū 1, p. 117; Unihan '夫'; XHZD '夫' fū 1) -
fú
pronoun
this; that; those
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Concept: Demonstrative 指示代词
Notes: 夫 was also used as a demonstrative pronoun in preclassical and classical Chinese, in the sense of 此 or 彼 (CCD '夫' fú 1; Guoyu '夫' fú adj; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 89; Unihan '夫'). -
fú
particle
now; still
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Concept: Modal Particle 语气助词
Notes: In Literary Chinese 夫 may be placed at the start of a sentence to introduce a topic (CCD '夫' fú 3; Guoyu '夫' fú particle 1; Kroll 2015 '夫' fú 1, p. 117; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 74; XHZD '夫' fú 1). -
fú
particle
is it not?; final particle
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Concept: Modal Particle 语气助词
Notes: In this sense 夫 may be used to form questions in Literary Chinese (Guoyu '夫' fú particle 2; Kroll 2015 '夫' fū 2, p. 117; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 145; ; XHZD '夫' fú 2). -
fū
noun
husband
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 丈夫 (CCD '夫' fū 1; Guoyu '夫' fū n 3; Kroll 2015 '夫' fū 1a, p. 117; Unihan '夫'; XHZD '夫' fū 2) -
fū
noun
a person
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As a noun suffix (Guoyu '夫' fū n 2; Kroll 2015 '夫' fū 3, p. 117) -
fū
noun
someone who does manual work
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, 渔夫 'fisherman' or 农夫 'farmer' (CCD '夫' fū 3; Guoyu '夫' fū n 4). -
fū
noun
a hired worker
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CCD '夫' fū 4). -
fú
pronoun
he
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: A personal pronoun, in the sense of 他 (CCD '夫' fú 2; Guoyu '夫' fú pronoun; Kroll 2015 '夫' fú 2, p. 117)
Contained in
- 华夫(華夫) waffle
- 丈夫气(丈夫氣) manly nature
- 杜塞道夫 Düsseldorf (Germany)
- 匹夫 a common person ; one person ; a lowly person
- 夫风者,天地之气(夫風者,天地之氣) Wind is a spirit of Heaven and Earth
- 凡夫俗子 common people; ordinary folk
- 贱丈夫(賤丈夫) a lowly man
- 图波列夫(圖波列夫) Tupolev, Russian plane maker
- 姦夫淫妇(姦夫淫婦) adulterous couple
- 征夫 traveler; soldier on expedition; soldier taking part in battle
- 赔了夫人又折兵(賠了夫人又折兵) having given away a bride, to lose one's army on top of it
- 柴可夫斯基 Tchaikovsky
- 潜水夫症(潛水夫症) bends
- 贩夫俗子(販夫俗子) peddlers and common people; lower class
- 荣禄大夫(榮祿大夫) a rank in government service
- 脚夫(腳夫) porter; bearer
- 姦夫 traitor ; traitor
- 萨哈罗夫奖(薩哈羅夫獎) Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
- 阿列夫 aleph (first letter א of Hebrew alphabet)
- 车脚夫(車腳夫) rickshaw driver
- 夫权(夫權) authority over the household
- 抓功夫 to maximize one's time; to catch some time out; to find enough time
- 家庭煮夫 househusband
- 且夫 for instance
- 匹夫匹妇(匹夫匹婦) ordinary people; commoners
- 夫役 corvee; laborer
- 姘夫 lover (of a woman); illicit partner; paramour
- 表姐夫 husband of older female cousin via female line
- 夫妇(夫婦) a married couple; husband and wife
- 樵夫 woodman; woodcutter
Also contained in
普罗夫迪夫 、 别赫捷列夫 、 甘夫人 、 柴契尔夫人 、 罗夫诺 、 王义夫 、 萨哈诺夫 、 克拉科夫 、 拉夫堡大学 、 林毅夫 、 普加乔夫 、 斯维尔德洛夫 、 马尔代夫 、 光禄大夫 、 福田康夫 、 戈巴契夫 、 霍夫曼 、 杜布罗夫尼克 、 罗摩诺索夫 、 恰亚诺夫 、 王夫之
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷五十二 竇田灌韓傳 Volume 52: Dou, Tian, Guan and Han Book of Han 漢書 — count: 80
- 《魏其武安侯列傳》 Biographies of the Marquis of Weiqi and the Marquis of Wu'an Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 69
- 卷二百〇一 列傳第八十八: 列女二 Volume 201 Biographies 88: Exemplary Women 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 62
- Daode Jing 《道德經》 Daode Jing 道德經 — count: 62
- 卷一百九十六 列傳第八十四 張璁 桂萼 方獻夫 夏言 Volume 196 Biographies 84: Zhang Cong, Gui E, Fang Xianfu, Xia Yan History of Ming 明史 — count: 61
- 卷六十四 志第十六: 河渠一 Volume 64 Treatises 17: Rivers and Canals 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 58
- 卷三百〇二 列傳第一百九十 列女二 Volume 302 Biographies 190: Exemplary Women 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 55
- 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 53
- 卷三百〇三 列傳第一百九十一 列女三 Volume 303 Biographies 191: Exemplary Women 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 51
- 卷十一 齊俗訓 Chapter 11: Combining Customs Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 48
Collocations
- 良夫 (良夫) 周芮良夫之詩曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 13
- 武夫 (武夫) 赳赳武夫 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧周南‧兔罝 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Zhou And The South - Tu Ju — count: 9
- 佞夫 (佞夫) 天王殺其弟佞夫 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 5
- 牧夫 (牧夫) 惟有司之牧夫 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 立政 Zhou Shu - Establishment of Government — count: 4
- 一夫 (一夫) 一夫不獲 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 說命下(僞) Shang Shu - Charge to Yue III (forged) — count: 4
- 百夫 (百夫) 百夫之特 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧秦‧黃鳥 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qin - Huang Niao — count: 4
- 夫来 (夫來) 衛侯使孫良夫來盟 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 3
- 夫二 (夫二) 請東人之能與夫二三有司言者 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 3
- 夫钟 (夫鐘) 公會宋公于夫鐘 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 桓公 Lord Huan — count: 3
- 壬夫 (壬夫) 楚公子壬夫帥師侵宋 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3