husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)
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(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
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夫 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
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two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid
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person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
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big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
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Characters with 夫 as component

to substitute for / to take the place of / to replace / for / on behalf of / to stand in for
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compass / a rule / regulation / to admonish / to plan / to scheme
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Taiwan pr. used in 夾生|夹生[jia1 sheng1] and 夾竹桃|夹竹桃[jia1 zhu2 tao2]
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to press from either side / to place in between / to sandwich / to carry sth under armpit / wedged between / between / to intersperse / to mix / to mingle / clip / folder / Taiwan pr. [jia2]
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to support with the hand / to help sb up / to support oneself by holding onto something / to help
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used in 芙蓉[fu2 rong2], lotus
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Words with 夫

husband / CL:個|个[ge4]
see 下工夫[xia4 gong1 fu5]
to put in time and energy / to concentrate one's efforts
(in ancient times) a man old enough for corvée or military service
Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), Japanese author, pen name of (平岡公威|平冈公威, Hiraoka Kimitake)
(derog.) the sick man of Asia (term used in the West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to refer to China in its weakened state after the Opium Wars)
lit. unbeatable by even 10,000 men (idiom) / fig. extremely brave and strong
lit. one husband one wife / monogamy
one man can hold the pass against ten thousand enemies (idiom)

Sentences with 夫

夫 currently does not appear in any sentence.
Comments

I admit that when looking at 夫 my first thought is 一+大, but in the end I like 二+人 more because then I know that the top horizontal stroke needs to be shorter than the bottom one. Think 末 vs 未.

Matthias, about 2 months ago