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
- 押寨夫人 the gang leader's wife
- 鱼夫(魚夫) fisher; fisherman
- 居里夫人 Marie Curie ; Marie Curie
- 车脚夫(車腳夫) rickshaw driver
- 凡夫 a commoner
- 情夫 lover; mistress
- 男子汉大丈夫(男子漢大丈夫) he-man
- 渔夫(漁夫) a fisherman
- 夫子自道 appearing to be praising others while actually praising yourself
- 丈夫 husband ; a great man ; a man who is one zhang tall
- 柴米夫妻 married in order to have daily necessities
- 萨哈罗夫人权奖(薩哈羅夫人權獎) the EU Sakharov Human Rights Prize
- 凡夫俗子 common people; ordinary folk
- 斯拉夫 Slavic
- 克利斯朵夫 Christopher (name)
- 杠夫(槓夫) pole carrier; coffin-bearer
- 下工夫 to put in time and energy; to concentrate one's efforts
- 半糖夫妻 weekend spouse; relationship involving a sugar-daddy
- 有夫之妇(有夫之婦) married woman
- 伙夫 mess cook (old)
- 潜水夫病(潛水夫病) bends
- 姐夫 older sister's husband
- 怯夫 coward
- 夫妻 man and wife
- 卡拉什尼科夫 Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle)
- 老夫 I (spoken by an old man)
- 士夫 a young man ; a gentleman ; a scholar ; a man
- 一夫多妻制 polygyny
Also contained in
古斯塔夫·多雷 、 谢里夫 、 马尔代夫 、 贝奥武夫 、 斯拉夫语族 、 纳扎尔巴耶夫 、 巴夫那加尔 、 穆沙拉夫 、 杀狗劝夫 、 御史大夫 、 特拉维夫 、 伏罗希洛夫 、 赫鲁晓夫 、 千夫长 、 谏议大夫 、 林毅夫 、 光禄大夫 、 吴夫人 、 罗蒙诺索夫 、 克拉科夫 、 福田康夫 、 弗罗茨瓦夫 、 第一夫人
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
- 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: 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
- 夫能 (夫能) 夫能固位者 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — 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