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Chinese symbol for “woodman”

樵夫
qiáo fū
woodman; woodcutter

The closest CC-CEDICT match for woodman is 樵夫 (qiáo fū), defined as: woodman; woodcutter.

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Characters and stroke order

樵 qiáo
firewood; lumberjack; to gather wood
radical 75 ⽊ · 16 strokes
夫 fū
man, husband; worker; those
radical 37 ⼤ · 4 strokes

Other Chinese words for “woodman”

WordPinyinMeaning
刍荛 (芻蕘)chú ráoto mow grass and cut firewood; grass mower

Related words

Other words that share a character with 樵夫.

WordPinyinMeaning
渔樵 (漁樵)yú qiáo(literary) fishermen and woodcutters (used to refer to rustic people or a simple, pastoral lifestyle)
樵子qiáo zǐwoodcutter
丈夫zhàng fuhusband
夫人fū renlady; madam
夫妻fū qīhusband and wife; married couple
夫妇 (夫婦)fū fùa (married) couple; husband and wife
功夫gōng fuskill; art
大夫dà fūsenior official (in imperial China)

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.