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
- 夫权(夫權) authority over the household
- 圣约瑟夫(聖約瑟夫) Saint Joseph
- 蛇夫座 Ophiuchus
- 万夫(萬夫) everyone; many people ; Brigade Commander
- 阿列夫 aleph (first letter א of Hebrew alphabet)
- 姨夫 mother's sister's husband; husband of mother's sister
- 下工夫 to put in time and energy; to concentrate one's efforts
- 沃尔夫(沃爾夫) Wolf; Wolfe
- 姦夫淫妇(姦夫淫婦) adulterous couple
- 马尔地夫(馬爾地夫) the Maldives
- 马尔可夫过程(馬爾可夫過程) Markov process
- 前夫 former husband
- 鳏夫(鰥夫) former husband; widower
- 鱼夫(魚夫) fisher; fisherman
- 塔夫绸(塔夫綢) taffeta
- 抓工夫 to maximize one's time; to catch some time out; to find enough time
- 费工夫(費工夫) to spend a great deal of time and effort; (of a task) demanding; exacting
- 一夫当关,万夫莫开(一夫當關,萬夫莫開) one man can hold the pass against ten thousand enemies
- 家庭煮夫 househusband
- 夫妻 man and wife
- 柯夫塔 kofta
- 凡夫俗子 common people; ordinary folk
- 做功夫 to practice (work skills)
- 萨哈罗夫奖(薩哈羅夫獎) Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
- 杠夫(槓夫) pole carrier; coffin-bearer
- 居礼夫人(居禮夫人) Maria Skłodowska-Curie / Marie Curie
- 拉夫 to force into service
- 妹夫 younger sister's husband
Also contained in
哈夫拉 、 古斯塔夫·多雷 、 加的夫 、 克拉科夫 、 斯维尔德洛夫 、 勒维夫 、 范德格拉夫 、 邵逸夫 、 卡夫 、 罗斯涅夫 、 拉夫堡 、 米夫 、 陀思妥耶夫斯基 、 吴夫人 、 列夫·托尔斯泰 、 拉夫罗夫 、 萨哈诺夫 、 恰亚诺夫 、 和达清夫 、 梅尔夫 、 诺夫哥罗德 、 太中大夫 、 夫差
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
- Daode Jing 《道德經》 Daode Jing 道德經 — count: 62
- 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
- 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
- 夫帅 (夫帥) 夫帥師 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 閔公 Lord Min — count: 3
- 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
- 夫诸侯 (夫諸侯) 夫諸侯之會 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 3