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大夫

dà fū

HSK 4 2-character word

What 大夫 means

1. senior official (in imperial China)

Other readings

大夫 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• dài fudoctor; physician

The characters in 大夫

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 夫fūhusband; man; manual worker

Example sentences

• 她以为我是大夫。
  Tā yǐwéi wǒ shì dàifu.
  She thought I was a doctor.
• 我父亲是个大夫。
  Wǒ fùqīn shì ge dàifu.
  My father's a doctor.

Words containing 大夫

• 士大夫shì dà fūscholar officials
• 蒙古大夫Měng gǔ dài fu(colloquial) quack (doctor); charlatan