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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
fū | fu1
English translation
husband
man
manual worker
conscripted laborer (old)
(classical) this, that
he, she, they
(exclamatory final particle)
(initial particle, introduces an opinion)
man, husband; worker; those

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Number of strokes

4

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

Learning hint

A man  wearing a coming-of-age hairpin 

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

一大

Explanation

Pictograph of a man. The top horizontal stroke is traditionally explained as a hairpin which was only worn by adults.

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农夫 nóng fū yòng fān le 一些 yī xiē 埋葬 máizàng de 财宝 cái bǎo .

The ploughman turned up some buried treasure.

大夫 dàfū le de mài , yòu qiáo 了瞧我的嗓子 sǎngzi .

The doctor felt my pulse and looked down my throat.

杰夫 Jié fū shì huó 百科全书 bǎi kē quán shū , 什么 shénme dōu dǒng .

Geoff is a walking encyclopedia. He knows about everything.

ō , bīn 格莱先生 Xiānsheng de Chē yāo sòng de 朋友 péngyou dào 麦里 tún , 斯脱夫妇 fūfù yòu shì yǒu Chē .

Oh! but the gentlemen will have Mr. Bingley's chaise to go to Meryton; and the Hursts have no horses to theirs.

gēn 几经 jǐ jīng le chūn de 功夫 gōngfu le .

He has been creeping about with her all the spring.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
丈夫 zhàngfu husband丈夫 zhàngfu
夫人 fūren lady夫人 fūren
man
夫妻 fū qī husband and wife夫妻 fū qī
夫妇 fūfù a (married) couple夫婦
功夫 gōngfu skill功夫 gōngfu
高尔夫 gāo ěr fū golf (loanword)高爾夫
大夫 dàfū doctor大夫 dàfū
高尔夫球 gāo ěr fū qiú golf高爾夫球
老夫 lǎo fū I (spoken by an old man)老夫 lǎo fū
工夫 gōng fū skill工夫 gōng fū
未婚夫 wèi hūn fū fiancé未婚夫 wèi hūn fū
前夫 qián fū former husband前夫 qián fū
杰夫 Jié fū Jeff or Geoff (name)傑夫
懦夫 nuò fū coward懦夫 nuò fū
姐夫 jiě fu (coll.) older sister's husband姐夫 jiě fu
史蒂夫 Shǐ dì fū Steve (male name)史蒂夫 Shǐ dì fū
下功夫 xià gōng fu to put in time and energy下功夫 xià gōng fu
赫鲁晓夫 Hè lǔ xiǎo fu Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953-1964赫魯曉夫
南斯拉夫 Nán sī lā fū Yugoslavia, 1943-1992南斯拉夫 Nán sī lā fū
农夫 nóng fū peasant農夫
约瑟夫 Yuē sè fū Joseph (name)約瑟夫
屠夫 tú fū butcher屠夫 tú fū
高尔夫球场 gāo ěr fū qiú chǎng golf course高爾夫球場

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Decomposition

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Compounds

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    • guī
      • qián , jiàn , , ,
    • jiā
    • niǎn
    • guī
      • guī , , , , kuī ,
      • , zuǎn , , , , , ,
    • niǎn
    • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , guī , , , , , , ,
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