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夫

fū

HSK 2 Character

What 夫 means

1. husband
2. man
3. manual worker
4. conscripted laborer (old)

Other readings

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

• fú(classical) this, that; he, she, they; (exclamatory final particle)

Example sentences

• 他是个懦夫。
  Tā shì ge nuòfū.
  He's a coward.
• 敏夫喜欢谁?
  Who does Toshio like?
• 我们是夫妇。
  We are husband and wife.
• 他是我丈夫。
  He is my husband.
• 你不是个懦夫。
  Nǐ bù shì gè nuòfū.
  You are not a coward.
• 我想打高尔夫。
  Wǒ xiǎng dǎgāo'ěrfū.
  I would like to play golf.

Words starting with 夫

• 夫人fū renlady; madam; Mrs.
• 夫妇fū fùa (married) couple; husband and wife
• 夫妻fū qīhusband and wife; married couple
• 夫子fū zǐMaster (old form of address for teachers, scholars); (used sarcastically) pedant
• 夫家fū jiāhusband's family (traditionally where the wife moves into)
• 夫婿fū xù(literary) husband
• 夫权fū quánauthority over the household
• 夫子自道Fū zǐ zì dàoappearing to be praising others while actually praising yourself…
• 夫余Fū yúPu'yo, Korean Buyeo (c. 200 BC-494 AD), ancient kingdom in northeast frontier region of…
• 夫妻店fū qī diànfamily-run shop
• 夫妻相fū qī xiàngsimilarity in features of an old couple; common facial traits that show predestination to…
• 夫妻反目fū qī fǎn mùman and wife fall out (idiom, from Book of Changes); marital strife
• 夫唱妇随fū chàng fù suífig. the man sings and the woman follows; fig. marital harmony
• 夫役fū yìcorvee; laborer
• 夫君fū jūn(honorific) husband
• 夫妻肺片fū qī fèi piànpopular Sichuan cold dish made of thinly sliced beef and beef offal
• 夫妻脸fū qī liǎnsee 夫妻相

Words containing 夫

• 丈夫zhàng fuhusband
• 大夫dà fūsenior official (in imperial China)
• 功夫gōng fuskill; art; kung fu
• 工夫gōng fuperiod of time (may be months, or mere seconds); spare time; skill
• 姐夫jiě fu(colloquial) older sister's husband
• 高尔夫gāo ěr fū(loanword) golf
• 农夫nóng fūpeasant; farmer
• 车夫chē fūcart driver; coachman
• 南斯拉夫Nán sī lā fūYugoslavia (former country that existed in various forms from 1918 to 2003)
• 赫鲁晓夫Hè lǔ xiǎo fuNikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953–1964
• 未婚夫wèi hūn fūfiancé
• 拉夫lā fūto force into service; press-gang
• 高尔夫球gāo ěr fū qiúgolf; golf ball
• 前夫qián fūformer husband
• 屠夫tú fūbutcher; fig. murderous dictator
• 卡夫卡Kǎ fū kǎFranz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer
• 妹夫mèi fuyounger sister's husband
• 高尔夫球场gāo ěr fū qiú chǎnggolf course
• 渔夫yú fūfisherman
• 大丈夫dà zhàng fua manly man; a man of character
• 戈尔巴乔夫Gē ěr bā qiáo fūGorbachev; Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931–2022), last president of the Soviet Union…
• 孔夫子Kǒng fū zǐConfucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔子
• 士大夫shì dà fūscholar officials
• 船夫chuán fūboatman

Characters that look like 夫

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 天tiānday; sky; heaven
• 支zhīto support; to sustain; to erect
• 失shīto lose; to miss; to fail
• 火huǒfire; urgent; ammunition
• 央yāngcenter; end; to beg
• 矢shǐarrow; dart; straight

Sounds the same

Read fū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 肤skin
• 敷to spread; to lay out; to apply (powder, ointment etc)
• 孵breeding; to incubate; to hatch
• 麸bran
• 砆agate; inferior gem; a kind of jade
• 呋used in transliteration, e.g. 呋喃; old variant of 趺
• 衭the lapel of a garment
• 泭a raft
• 趺instep; tarsus
• 跗instep; tarsus
• 稃husk; outside shell of grain
• 玞a kind of jade