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丈夫

zhàng fu

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 level 2 2-character word

丈夫 (zhàng fu) means "husband". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 丈夫 means

1. husband

The characters in 丈夫

• 丈zhàngmeasure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m); to measure; husband
• 夫fūhusband; man; manual worker

Example sentences

• 他是我丈夫。
  He is my husband.
• 她恨她的丈夫。
  She hated her husband.
• 她与丈夫离婚。
  She divorced her husband.
• 你丈夫叫什幺？
  What's your husband's name?
• 我丈夫是教授。
  My husband is a professor.
• 我的丈夫在哪里？
  Where's my husband?

Words containing 丈夫

• 大丈夫dà zhàng fua manly man; a man of character
• 无毒不丈夫wú dú bù zhàng funo poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.
• 男子汉大丈夫nán zǐ hàn dà zhàng fu(colloquial) he-man
• 大丈夫能屈能伸dà zhàng fu néng qū néng shēnA leader can submit or can stand tall as required.; ready to give and take; flexible

Where 丈夫 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Family Members (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhàng fu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.