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大夫 dàfū

大夫 dàfū Meaning

Learn the Pinyin Pronunciation and 3 English Translations of the word 大夫 dàfū .

Pīnyīn Pronunciation
dàfū | da4 fu1
English translation
senior official (in imperial China)
Pīnyīn Pronunciation
dàifu | dai4 fu5
English translation
doctor
physician

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Traditional form

大夫 dàfū

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí
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Etymology of 大夫 dàfū

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Type

ideographic

Explanation

Pictograph of a person with outstretched arms, representing the meaning "big".

Positional decomposition

一人

Number of Strokes

3

Type

ideographic

Explanation

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

Positional decomposition

一大

Number of Strokes

4

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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.

jiù 应当 yīng dāng 喝酒 hē jiǔ ma . ” 维特 Wéi tè 大夫 dàfū de zuǐ shuì .

" Then you ought to leave it alone , " countered Doctor Civet.

大夫 dàfū , 病人 bìng rén zài jiào 肚子 dùzi téng .

The patient is complaining of pain in the abdomen, doctor.

大夫 dàfū dào Hòu , ràng 到楼 shǎng lái , hǎo ?

When the doctor arrives, send him up the stairs, will you ?

完全 wánquán 正确 zhèngquè , ” 兴冲冲 xìng chōng chōng de 打断 dǎ duàn 的话 de huà shuì , “ 完全正确.利维 Sāi 大夫 dàfū shì wèi 绅士 shēnshì , yòu shì 治安 zhìān Guān .

'Perfectly right,'he interrupted, very cheerily,'perfectly right - a gentleman and a magistrate.

大夫 dàfū Decomposition

See the 2 Chinese characters that make up 大夫 dàfū and their own compounds.

大夫 dàfū Compounds

See all 1013 Chinese words that contain the characters that make up the word 大夫 dàfū in their composition.

    • tiān
      • Guān
        • sòng
          • xx ,
        • juǎn
          • juān , juàn , quán , quǎn , quán , quān , quán , juǎn , quán , , , , , , , , , quǎn , , , , ,
        • quán
        • Zhèng
        • juàn
          • ,
        • téng
          • téng ,
        • juǎn
          • quān , juǎn
        • téng
        • juàn
        • téng
        • juàn
        • téng
        • juàn
          • yìng , yàng , , , yǎng , ,
        • juàn
          • , , lèi
        • lián , téng , quàn , zhèn , , huàn , guān , chéng , quān , zhèn , téng , shèng , juàn , xiǎng , dài , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
      • zòu
        • , , , , , , , , , , ,
      • hào
      • guǐ
        • kuí , kuí , kuí , kuí , kuí , kuí , què , kuí , , , , , , ,
      • tūn , cán , wěng , xiān , , , , , ,
    • tài
        • ,
      • tài , tài , tài , tài , tài , dāi , tài , tài , tuó , , , dài ,
    • yīn
      • ēn
      • yān , yīn , yān , yīn , yān , yīn , yīn , yīn , yān , yīn , , yīn , yīn , yīn , , , , ,
    • tóu
    • Měi
      • gēng , měi , měi , měi , měi , , měi
    • shī
      • Tiě , diē , zhì , dié , , , , zhì , chì , dié , zhí , , dié , dié , zhì , zhì , zhí , dié , , , , , , , , , , ,
      • guī
        • qián , jiàn , , ,
      • jiā
      • niǎn
      • guī
        • guī , , , , kuī ,
        • , zuǎn , , , , , ,
      • niǎn
      • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , guī , , , , , , ,
      • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
    • lèi
      • lèi
        • ,
    • Ào
      • ào , , , , ǎo ,
    • fèn
    • shuǎng
      • shuǎng , , , , , , , ,
    • jiān
    • nài
      • nài , , nǎi , nài
    • kuā
        • huà
      • kuǎ , kuà , kuà , , kuà , , , , kuǎ , páo , kuā , 洿, , , , , , , , , kuā , , , , ,
    • bēn
      • bēn , , , , , , , ,
    • quǎn
      • yàn
        • , , ,
      • chòu
        • xiù , qiǔ , xiù , , chòu , ,
      • xiàn
        • , , , , , , ,
        • lèi , , liè , , , ,
      • jiā
        • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
      • biāo
        • biāo ,
        • , , , , , , ,
        • yàn
          • , , , , , , 檿, , yàn , yǎn ,
      • xiàn
        • ,
      • zhuàng , , , fèi , áo , shū , yǎn , yìn , yóu , dāi , shòu , quǎn , rán , , , , zhuàng , , jiǎng , , shòu , , ,
    • yāng
      • Yīng
        • yīng , yīng , yīng , Yīng , yīng , yīng , yīng , yīng , , , , , , , , , ,
      • huàn
      • yìng , àng , yāng , yāng , yāng , yàng , yāng , jiǎn , yǎng , yǎng , yāng , yāng , yāng , , , , , , , , , , , , , yāng
      • xiē , qiè , , qiè , , xiè , , xiē , , , , , , qiā
      • , , , , , , , , , , tiě , , , , , , ,
    • kuí
      • kuí , kuí , kuǐ , , ,
    • shē
      • , ,
    • mǎng
    • yāo
      • tiǎn
        • tiān , tiǎn , tián , , , tiàn
      • tūn
        • qiáo
          • juē , juē , jiāo , xiāo , jiāo , jiǎo , qiáo , jiǎo , qiáo , , , , jiāo , , , qiáo , , , , jiǎo , , , , qiáo , , , jiào , , , jiāo
      • xiào , yuè , yāo , ǎo , ào , yāo , , , , , , , , , yǐng , , , , , , ,
    • yǎn
    • shǐ
      • zhī
          • ,
        • níng , ài , , , , , , , chī , , ,
        • , , , ,
      • hóu
        • hòu , hóu , hóu , hòu , hóu , hóu , hóu , hóu , gōu , hòu , , hóu , 帿, , , ,
      • zhì
      • duǎn , ǎi , jiǎo , cuó , , kuǎn , hóu , shěn , zēng , yuē , , yǐng , , jiǎo , , , , , , ,
      • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 谿, , , , , ,
    • fán
    • ào
      • ō , ào , , ,
    • jiā
        • qiáng , , , qiáng , , , , qiáng , , , , qiáng
      • mài
        • , miàn , miàn , pào , , , móu , , , , , , , , , , miàn , ,
      • xiá , xié , jiá , , , xiá , xiá , , , jiá , , , jiá , jiá ,
    • guài
      • kuài
      • jué
      • kuài , quē , jué , guì , mèi , jué , jué , jué , jué , , jué , jué , , , , jué , , jué , , , jué ,
    • zhā
    • shì
    • juàn
      • liè , , lèi
    • ruǎn
      • ruán , ruǎn , réng , nuǎn , , , , , , , , , , ,
      • ,
    • tāo
      • gāo
        • áo , háo , gāo , , , , ,
      • bào
      • zòu
      • chūn
        • chǔn , 椿 chūn , chūn , , , , , , , chūn , , , , , , , chūn
      • fèng
        • bàng , pěng , fèng , fěng , běng , běng , běng , , bàng
      • qín
        • zhēn , qín , zhēn , qín , zhēn , zhēn , qín , , , , , ,
      • chōng
        • , zhuāng ,
    • huàn
    • tái
    • , tào , jiǎng , qìng , duó , qiān , , sān , diàn , , tuó , , fèn , hāng , lián , zàng , , , kuǎng , diǎn , fěi , jiǎng , yūn , jiǎng , , shì , , , cuàn , , , , , , , , 夿, , , , , , , , , , , lián , ,
    • , bào , , , , , , tuó
    • guī
      • qián , jiàn , , ,
    • jiā
    • niǎn
    • guī
      • guī , , , , kuī ,
      • , zuǎn , , , , , ,
    • niǎn
    • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , guī , , , , , , ,
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