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夫 fū

fū noun a man; a male adult
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CCD '夫' fū 2; Guoyu '夫' fū n 1; Kroll 2015 '夫' fū 1, p. 117; Unihan '夫'; XHZD '夫' fū 1)
fú pronoun this; that; those
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Concept: Demonstrative 指示代词
Notes: 夫 was also used as a demonstrative pronoun in preclassical and classical Chinese, in the sense of 此 or 彼 (CCD '夫' fú 1; Guoyu '夫' fú adj; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 89; Unihan '夫').
fú particle now; still
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Concept: Modal Particle 语气助词
Notes: In Literary Chinese 夫 may be placed at the start of a sentence to introduce a topic (CCD '夫' fú 3; Guoyu '夫' fú particle 1; Kroll 2015 '夫' fú 1, p. 117; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 74; XHZD '夫' fú 1).
fú particle is it not?; final particle
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Concept: Modal Particle 语气助词
Notes: In this sense 夫 may be used to form questions in Literary Chinese (Guoyu '夫' fú particle 2; Kroll 2015 '夫' fū 2, p. 117; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 145; ; XHZD '夫' fú 2).
fū noun husband
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 丈夫 (CCD '夫' fū 1; Guoyu '夫' fū n 3; Kroll 2015 '夫' fū 1a, p. 117; Unihan '夫'; XHZD '夫' fū 2)
fū noun a person
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As a noun suffix (Guoyu '夫' fū n 2; Kroll 2015 '夫' fū 3, p. 117)
fū noun someone who does manual work
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, 渔夫 'fisherman' or 农夫 'farmer' (CCD '夫' fū 3; Guoyu '夫' fū n 4).
fū noun a hired worker
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CCD '夫' fū 4).
fú pronoun he
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: A personal pronoun, in the sense of 他 (CCD '夫' fú 2; Guoyu '夫' fú pronoun; Kroll 2015 '夫' fú 2, p. 117)

Contained in

吠提哂夫人 Vaidehī
丈夫自有冲天志不向如来行处行(丈夫自有沖天志不向如來行處行) A man of spirit aspires to soar far and high; Refusing to walk the same path as the Buddha.
无算丈夫无与等(無算丈夫無與等) unequaled among men; apratipudgala
三十二大丈夫相 thirty two marks of excellence
夫宗极绝于称谓(夫宗極絕於稱謂) the ultimate meaning of a school's teaching cannot be described in words
无上丈夫(無上丈夫) Supreme One; Unexcelled One
农夫心(農夫心) the mind of a farmer

Also contained in

伙夫、潜水夫症、迂夫子、表姐夫、栅夫、窝夫、且夫、杰夫、夫主、夫役、打高尔夫、夫权、车夫、沃尔夫、如夫人、姨夫、公爵夫人、赔了夫人又折兵、蛇夫座、鱼夫、压寨夫人、更夫、工夫、病夫、夫家、普加乔夫、天下兴亡，匹夫有责、夫妻、吴夫人、林毅夫、姦夫淫妇、哈夫拉、贩夫、夫人、情夫、杀狗劝夫、夫子、少年夫妻老来伴、老夫、贾夫纳、匹夫匹妇、丁夫、介夫、万夫

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

Scroll 1 Treasure Store Treatise 寶藏論 — count: 68
Scroll 1 Zhao Lun 肇論 — count: 65 , has English translation
Scroll 2 Tan Jin Wenji 鐔津文集 — count: 64
Scroll 2 Hongming Ji (Collection on the Propagation and Clarification of Buddhism) 弘明集 — count: 56
Scroll 6 Bian Zheng Lun 辯正論 — count: 53
Scroll 13 Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集 — count: 53
Scroll 14 Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集 — count: 49
Scroll 6 Beishan Record 北山錄 — count: 48
Scroll 5 Hongming Ji (Collection on the Propagation and Clarification of Buddhism) 弘明集 — count: 44
Scroll 7 Hongming Ji (Collection on the Propagation and Clarification of Buddhism) 弘明集 — count: 42

Collocations

壮夫 (壯夫) 譬如世間有力壯夫 — Beginning of the World (Qi Shi Jing) 起世經, Scroll 4 — count: 9
田夫 (田夫) 譬如田夫 — Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, Scroll 10 — count: 7
夫延 (夫延) 俱至夫延城 — Nirvāṇa Sūtra 佛般泥洹經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
夫曰 (夫曰) 語其夫曰 — Madhyamāgama 中阿含經, Scroll 32 — count: 5
夫出家 (夫出家) 夫出家者 — Dīrghāgama 長阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
夫生 (夫生) 夫生有死 — Dīrghāgama 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 4
夫智者 (夫智者) 夫智者以譬得解 — Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, Scroll 5 — count: 4
夫为人 (夫為人) 夫為人子 — Dīrghāgama 長阿含經, Scroll 11 — count: 4
夫言 (夫言) 語夫言 — Laizhaheluo Jing (Raṭṭhapālasutta) 賴吒和羅經, Scroll 1 — count: 4
名士夫 (名士夫) 是名士夫捷疾具足 — Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, Scroll 32 — count: 4