夫

fū

husband

man; manual worker; conscripted laborer (old)

one (一) + big person (大) = a full-grown man, a husband

大 depicts a person with arms spread wide; the stroke on top (一) marks the hairpin or topknot that signified an adult man in ancient China. Together they picture a grown man who has come of age.

一+大→夫
一OneSemantic
大BigSemantic

她的丈夫每天早上六点出门上班。

tā de zhàng fū měi tiān zǎo shang liù diǎn chū mén shàng bān。

Her husband leaves for work at six every morning.

农夫在田里从早干到晚,非常辛苦。

nóng fū zài tián lǐ cóng zǎo gàn dào wǎn,fēi cháng xīn kǔ。

The farmer works in the fields from morning to night, which is very hard.

Words with 夫

克拉科夫

kè lā kē fū

Krakow

居里夫人

jū lǐ fū ren

Maria Skłodowska-Curie or Marie Curie (1867–1934), Nobel laureate in both physics (1903) and chemistry (1911)

轿夫

jiào fū

porter for a palanquin

大夫

dài fu

doctor; physician

新婚夫妇

xīn hūn fū fù

newly married couple

克利夫兰

kè lì fū lán

Cleveland

樵夫

qiáo fū

woodman

公爵夫人

gōng jué fū rén

duchess

士大夫

shì dà fū

scholar officials

哈巴罗夫斯克

hā bā luó fū sī kè

Khabarovsk, far eastern Russian city and province on the border with Heilongjiang province of China

戈尔巴乔夫

gē ěr bā qiáo fū

Gorbachev

工夫

gōng fu

period of time (may be months, or mere seconds)

More characters with 一

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