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夫
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Definitions
- 1. (classical) this, that
- 2. he, she, they
- 3. (exclamatory final particle)
- 4. (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
Example Sentences
1 shown懦 夫 ！
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Words Containing 夫
Hofmann or Hoffman (name)
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840-1893), Russian composer, composer of 6 symphonies and the opera Eugene Onegin
Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, awarded by the European Parliament annually since 1988
Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953-1964
Pervez Musharraf (1943-), Pakistani general and politician, president 2001-2008
Pavlov (name)
pedicab driver
see 下工夫[xià gōng fu]
ordinary man
First Lady (wife of US president)
pole carrier
male adulterer
Lavrov (name)
street cleaner
Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), Russian nuclear scientist and dissident human rights activist
husband of younger female cousin via male line
Mikhail Prokhorov (1965-), Russian billionaire and owner of the Brooklyn Nets (NBA team)
father's sister's husband
see 居禮夫人|居礼夫人[jū lǐ fū ren]
Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretary-general of Soviet communist party 1953-1964
Minkowski (name)
Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940-), president of Kazakhstan 1990-2019
Cardiff
the EU Sakharov prize for human rights
fisherman
man and wife fall out (idiom, from Book of Changes); marital strife
The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society.
tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator
peddlers and common people
Loughborough University
Medvedyev (name)
Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer
married man; husband (as a social role)
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist
a couple in a short-lived, improper relationship
FUKUDA Yasuo (1936-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2007-2008
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
no poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.
peasant
the Maldives
Professional Golfer's Association (PGA)
Khabarovsk, far eastern Russian city and province on the border with Heilongjiang province of China
very concentrated type of tea drunk in Chaozhou, Fujian and Taiwan
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), Russian poet and dramatist
Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought (awarded by EU since 1988)
traveler
golf (loanword)
skill
Van de Graaff (name)
common facial traits that show predestination to be married together
cart driver
Abu Sayyaf, militant Islamist separatist group also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya
to travel far and wide looking for sth, only to find it easily
weekend spouse
Slavic
Steve Jobs (1955-2011), US co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc.
Wroclaw, Polish city
see 鐵球|铁球[tiě qiú]
peddler
ordinary people; commoners
Lviv (Lvov), town in western Ukraine
Markov process (math.)
fig. the man sings and the woman follows
Krakow
Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev (1857-1927), Russian neurologist and psychiatrist
burlak (barge hauler)
the Wolf Prize (for science and arts)
to practice (work skills)
golf
Braşov, Romania
appearing to be praising others while actually praising yourself
Tupolev, Russian plane maker
Pu'yo, Korean Buyeo (c. 200 BC-494 AD), ancient kingdom in northeast frontier region of China
a lot of people (literary)
Kevlar
Gulf Port (Florida or Mississippi)
kofta
Ophiuchus (constellation)
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚[zuì yǔ fá]
brand names include Zeffix, Heptovir, Epivir and Epivir-HBV
Loughborough, English city
waffle (loanword)
butcher
Sharif (name)
Benioff zone (geology)
(Andrei) Sakharov
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Russian composer
Plovdiv, city in Bulgaria
a (married) couple
scholar officials
Gustave Dore (1832-1883), French artist and sculptor
(literary) husband
bends
A leader can submit or can stand tall as required.
to play golf
aleph (first letter א of Hebrew alphabet)
Khufu (pharaoh, reigned possibly 2590-2568 BC)
Amah Rock in Sha Tin 沙田[shā tián], Hong Kong
(Charlene) Barshefsky, US trade negotiator
Rachmaninoff or Rachmaninov (name)
Kasimov (town in Russia)
see 夫妻相[fū qī xiàng]
Hatoyama Yukio (1947-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister 2009-2010
househusband
see 赫魯曉夫|赫鲁晓夫[hè lǔ xiǎo fu]
The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society.
lit. one husband one wife
boatman
Run Run Shaw (1907-2014), Hong Kong movie and television tycoon
Gustav Stresemann (Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic)
common person
Sculptor (constellation)
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), American author and biochemist
Auriga (constellation)
a manly man
Steve (male name)
Delft, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands
to assist one's husband and educate the children (idiom)
the EU Sakharov Human Rights Prize
newly married couple
to play golf
Wadati Kiyoō (1902-1995), pioneer Japanese seismologist
to practice (work skills)
common people; ordinary folk
Saint Joseph
a married couple allowed dispensation to have second child
Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer
corvee
Joseph (name)
Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close to Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea)
Tel Aviv
husband and wife; married couple
honorific title during Tang to Qing times, approx. \Glorious grand master\",2025-02-14 13:18:20,2025-02-14 13:18:20 45153,30127,bald; bare (no hair
fisher
husband
adulterous couple
Yugoslavia, 1943-1992
Lady Macbeth
bends
lit. peddlers and carriers
Steve Jobs (1955-2011), US co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc.
Jeff or Geoff (name)
Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachov (1742-1775), Russian Cossack, leader of peasant rebellion 1773-1775 against Catherine the Great
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚[zuì yǔ fá]
Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif (1901-1938), Ukrainian Soviet expert on Chinese affairs, secretly executed in Stalin's purges
lover (of a woman)
pedant
Wang Yifu (1960-), male PRC pistol shooter and Olympic medalist
to maximize one's time
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765), famous Russian chemist and polymath
senior official (in imperial China)
having given away a bride, to lose one's army on top of it (idiom)
golf course
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1793-1856), one of the discoverers of non-Euclidean geometry
(used sarcastically) pedant
porter
Lebedev or Lebedyev (Russian name)
Nongfu Spring, Chinese bottled water and beverage company
Li Zhifu (c. 14th century), Yuan dynasty playwright in the 雜劇|杂剧[zá jù] style
Ishida Yoshio (1948-), Japanese Go player
to face a thousand pointing fingers with a cool scowl (citation from Lu Xun)
coward
Mrs Thatcher
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer
Hugo Benioff (1899-1968), Caltech seismologist
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (1885-1919), Bolshevik organizer, ordered the murder of the Tsar's family in 1918, died of Spanish influenza
Razumovsky (name)
Rosneft (Russian state oil company)
rickshaw puller
lit. just because Zhang the butcher dies, doesn't mean we'll have to eat pork mixed with bristles (idiom)
duchess
Madame Tussauds (waxworks)
(coll.) quack (doctor)
bachelor
Keukenhof, flower garden in Netherlands
Sakharov (name)
M.A. Balakirev, Russian composer
Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR 1966-1982
night watchman (in former times)
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian chemist who introduced the periodic table
lit. unbeatable by even 10,000 men (idiom)
family-run shop
Rivne (or Rovno), city in western Ukraine
married woman's lover
Avebury (stone circle near Stonehenge)
lady
doctor
Tolstoy (name)
Alexander Chayanov (1888-1937), Soviet agrarian economist
Sakharov (Russian name)
If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle.
sick man
(coll.) he-man
househusband
Yu Dafu (1896-1945), poet and novelist
to force into service
Kliment Voroshilov (1881-1969), Soviet politician and military commander
period of time (may be months, or mere seconds)
former Yugoslavia (1945-1992)
Leonid Kravchuk (1934-), first post-communist president of Ukraine 1991-1994
younger sister's husband
Christopher (name)
Wolf, Woolf (name)
Chinese translation of \kung flu\, a term used by US President Trump in 2020 to refer to COVID-19 as a \Chinese\ disease
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian polymath and writer
married man
Lomonosov ridge (in the Artic Ocean)
porter for a palanquin
Najaf (city in Iraq, a Shia holy city)
Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), Japanese author, pen name of (平岡公威|平冈公威, Hiraoka Kimitake)
Dubrovnik (city in Croatia)
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基[tuó sī tuǒ yē fū sī jī]
Düsseldorf (Germany)
Gorbachev
Van de Graaff generator
tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator
Ulanhu (1906-1988), Soviet-trained Mongolian communist who became important PRC military leader
Maria Skłodowska-Curie or Marie Curie (1867-1934), Nobel laureate in both physics (1903) and chemistry (1911)
woodman
married woman
mother's sister's husband
fiancé
to maximize one's time
former husband
Boötes (constellation)
Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔子[kǒng zǐ]
Wolfsburg
Düsseldorf (Germany)
Ralph (name)
Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle)
Slavic language
kung flu
polygamy
husband of younger female cousin via female line
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator
to put in time and energy
to spend a great deal of time and effort
Falstaff (Shakespearian character)
waffle (loanword)
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Moiseyev (name)
a rank in government service
Cleveland
porter
Novgorod, city in Russia
taffeta
groom
Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692), wide-ranging scholar of the Ming-Qing transition
Jeff Kinney
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays
sole ruler
Kraft, US food company