夫 — Chinese character
夫
fū
man, husband; worker; those
- Pinyin
- fū
- Radical
- 37 ⼤ (Big)
- Strokes
- 4
- Components
- 一 大
- Formation
- ideographic — A man 大 wearing a coming-of-age hairpin 一
- Japanese
- 夫 as a kanji
Common words with 夫
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 丈夫 | zhàng fu | husband |
| 夫人 | fū ren | lady; madam |
| 夫妻 | fū qī | husband and wife; married couple |
| 夫妇 (夫婦) | fū fù | a (married) couple; husband and wife |
| 功夫 | gōng fu | skill; art |
| 大夫 | dà fū | senior official (in imperial China) |
| 大夫 | dài fu | doctor; physician |
| 农夫 (農夫) | nóng fū | peasant; farmer |
| 高尔夫 (高爾夫) | gāo ěr fū | (loanword) golf |
| 工夫 | gōng fū | (old) laborer |
| 工夫 | gōng fu | period of time (may be months, or mere seconds); spare time |
| 第一夫人 | dì yī fū rén | First Lady (wife of the head of state) |
English words written with 夫
夫 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 30 · Analects 104 · Art of War 13 · I Ching 10 · Mencius 177 · Zhuangzi 445 · Great Learning 1 · Doctrine of the Mean 20
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 2
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 3
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 8
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 15
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 16
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 22
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 31
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 32
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