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.

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Words with 夫

船夫

chuán fū

boatman

邵逸夫

shào yì fū

Run Run Shaw (1907-2014), Hong Kong movie and television tycoon

郁达夫

yù dá fū

Yu Dafu (1896-1945), poet and novelist

门捷列夫

mén jié liè fū

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian chemist who introduced the periodic table

闵科夫斯基

mǐn kē fū sī jī

Minkowski (name)

阿列夫

ā liè fū

aleph (first letter א of Hebrew alphabet)

阿布沙耶夫

ā bù shā yē fū

Abu Sayyaf, militant Islamist separatist group also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya

阿西莫夫

ā xī mò fū

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), American author and biochemist

陀思妥也夫斯基

tuó sī tuǒ yě fū sī jī

also written 陀思妥耶夫斯基[Tuo2 si1 tuo3 ye1 fu1 si1 ji1]

陀思妥耶夫斯基

tuó sī tuǒ yē fū sī jī

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚[Zui4 yu3 Fa2]

双独夫妇

shuāng dú fū fù

a married couple allowed dispensation to have second child

霍夫曼

huò fū màn

Hofmann or Hoffman (name)

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