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