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
- 抓功夫 to maximize one's time; to catch some time out; to find enough time
- 拉夫桑贾尼(拉夫桑賈尼) Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
- 夫人 wife ; Mrs. ; the wife of a feudal lord ; a consort of the emperor ; lady; madam
- 柴可夫斯基 Tchaikovsky
- 荣禄大夫(榮祿大夫) a rank in government service
- 挑夫 porter
- 打高尔夫球(打高爾夫球) to play golf
- 匹夫 a common person ; one person ; a lowly person
- 丈夫气(丈夫氣) manly nature
- 哲夫 a wise man
- 樵夫 woodman; woodcutter
- 船夫 boatman
- 夫妻肺片 popular Sichuan cold dish made of thinly sliced beef and beef offal
- 斯拉夫 Slavic
- 阿布沙耶夫 Abu Sayyaf, militant Islamist separatist group also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya
- 沃尔夫(沃爾夫) Wolf; Wolfe
- 夫子 master ; master [Confucius] ; teacher; elder ; husband ; attendant; servant
- 轿夫(轎夫) a person bearing a sedan chair
- 懦夫 coward
- 未婚夫 fiancé
- 国家兴亡,匹夫有责(國家興亡,匹夫有責) The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone . Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society.
- 怯夫 coward
- 萨哈罗夫奖(薩哈羅夫獎) Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
- 压寨夫人(壓寨夫人) the gang leader's wife
- 蒙古大夫 quack (doctor); charlatan
- 公爵夫人 duchess
- 人力车夫(人力車夫) rickshaw driver
- 夫妻反目 man and wife fall out; marital strife
- 新婚夫妇(新婚夫婦) newly married couple; newlyweds
- 鳏夫(鰥夫) former husband; widower
- 抓工夫 to maximize one's time; to catch some time out; to find enough time
- 萨克洛夫奖(薩克洛夫獎) Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, awarded by the European Parliament annually since 1988
- 清道夫 street cleaner; garbage collector
- 夫婿 husband
- 露水夫妻 a couple in a short-lived, improper relationship
Also contained in
陀思妥也夫斯基 、 金紫光禄大夫 、 普罗夫迪夫 、 拉米夫定 、 契诃夫 、 阿西莫夫 、 列夫·托尔斯泰 、 波提夫人 、 布拉索夫 、 埃夫伯里 、 霍夫曼 、 勃列日涅夫 、 哈夫拉 、 罗摩诺索夫 、 南斯拉夫 、 王义夫
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: 54
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 膳夫 (膳夫) 仲允膳夫 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧節南山之什‧十月之交 Minor odes of the kingdom - Jie Nan Shan Zhi Shen - Shi Yue Zhi Jiao — 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
- 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