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HSK
period of time (may be months, or mere seconds) / spare time / skill / labor / effort
HSK 3
doctor; physician
HSK 3
skill / art / kung fu / labor / effort
HSK 3
a (married) couple / husband and wife / CL: 對|对
HSK 4
husband and wife; married couple
HSK 4
husband
HSK 4
lady / madam / Mrs. / CL:
HSK 4
golf / golf ball
HSK 7-9
variant of 下工夫
HSK 7-9
very concentrated type of tea drunk in Chaozhou, Fujian and Taiwan
rickshaw puller
the Maldives
M.A. Balakirev, Russian composer
Dubrovnik (city in Croatia)
monogamy
burlak (barge hauler)
no poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.
(old) laborer
fisher / fisherman
Keukenhof, flower garden in Netherlands
Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR 1966-1982
married man; husband (as a social role)
male adulterer
Alexander Chayanov (1888-1937), Soviet agrarian economist
Van de Graaff generator
Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), Japanese author, pen name of (平岡公威|平冈公威, Hiraoka Kimitake)
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (1885-1919), Bolshevik organizer, ordered the murder of the Tsar's family in 1918, died of Spanish influenza
Steve (male name)
porter
First Lady (wife of US president)
The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society.
Pervez Musharraf (1943-), Pakistani general and politician, president 2001-2008
Professional Golfer's Association (PGA)
a manly man / a man of character
Plovdiv, city in Bulgaria
bachelor / unmarried man
(loanword) golf
Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692), wide-ranging scholar of the Ming-Qing transition
Master (old form of address for teachers, scholars) / (used sarcastically) pedant
(honorific) husband
the Maldives (Tw)
(coll.) older sister's husband
senior official (in imperial China)
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian polymath and writer
Jeff or Geoff (name)
peasant / farmer
fisherman
(Andrei) Sakharov
Loughborough University
authority over the household
fiancé
similarity in features of an old couple / common facial traits that show predestination to be married together
Joseph (name)
Tel Aviv / Tel Aviv-Jaffa
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  *夫* | 夫* | *夫
husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)
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  *夫* | 夫* | *夫
(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
to force into service / press-gang
married woman
Wang Yifu (1960-), male PRC pistol shooter and Olympic medalist
Gorbachev / Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931–2022), last president of the Soviet Union 1991–1995
Sakharov (Russian name)
married woman's lover
husband's family (traditionally where the wife moves into)
Kraft, US food company
common person / ordinary guy / mortal man
woodman / woodcutter
former husband
Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer
to assist one's husband and educate the children (idiom) / the traditional roles of a good wife
Wolf, Woolf (name)
Braşov, Romania
married man
Ralph (name)
older sister's husband
Medvedyev (name) / Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, president of Russian Federation from 2008
to spend a great deal of time and effort / (of a task) demanding / exacting
Nongfu Spring, Chinese bottled water and beverage company
groom / stable lad / horsekeeper / pimp / procurer
family-run shop
Khabarovsk, far eastern Russian city and province on the border with Heilongjiang province of China
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays
A leader can submit or can stand tall as required. / ready to give and take / flexible
a lot of people (literary)
Lavrov (name) / Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004
old wifeless man; bachelor; widower
sole ruler / dictator
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953–1964
Amah Rock in Sha Tin 沙田, Hong Kong
man and wife fall out (idiom, from Book of Changes); marital strife
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), American author and biochemist
Najaf (city in Iraq, a Shia holy city)
Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer / Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886), Russian playwright
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer
Tupolev, Russian plane maker
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚
(old) dowager / old lady (title for the mother of a noble or an official)
(old) concubine
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
fig. the man sings and the woman follows / fig. marital harmony

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