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husband
HSK 4
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
period of time (may be months, or mere seconds) / spare time / skill / labor / effort
HSK 3
lady / madam / Mrs. / CL:
HSK 4
a manly man / a man of character
senior official (in imperial China)
pedicab driver
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *夫* | 夫* | *夫
husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *夫* | 夫* | *夫
(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
monogamy
Nongfu Spring, Chinese bottled water and beverage company
butcher / fig. murderous dictator
Steve Jobs (1955-2011), US co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc.
common person / ordinary guy / mortal man
(honorific) husband
golf / golf ball
HSK 7-9
very concentrated type of tea drunk in Chaozhou, Fujian and Taiwan
coward
Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), Japanese author, pen name of (平岡公威|平冈公威, Hiraoka Kimitake)
ordinary man / ignorant person / coarse fellow
scholar officials
mess cook (old)
married woman
The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society.
taffeta
Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔子
night watchman (in former times)
similarity in features of an old couple / common facial traits that show predestination to be married together
family-run shop
The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society.
popular Sichuan cold dish made of thinly sliced beef and beef offal
husband and wife in youth, companions in old age
peasant / farmer
Yugoslavia (former country that existed in various forms from 1918 to 2003)
(loanword) golf
weekend spouse / relationship involving a sugar-daddy
Van de Graaff generator
Master (old form of address for teachers, scholars) / (used sarcastically) pedant
no poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.
If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle. / cf idiom 磨杵成針|磨杵成针, to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task / to study diligently
polygamy
younger sister's husband
lit. peddlers and carriers / common people / lower class
authority over the household
househusband
woodman / woodcutter
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays
common people; ordinary folk
(coll.) older sister's husband
lover (of a woman) / illicit partner / paramour
boatman
peddlers and common people / lower class
Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle)
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚 / also written 陀思妥耶夫斯基
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953–1964
Kraft, US food company
to maximize one's time / to catch some time out / to find enough time / (also 抓工夫)
married man; husband (as a social role)
Kasimov (town in Russia)
to practice (work skills)
(in ancient times) a man old enough for corvée or military service
to put in time and energy / to concentrate one's efforts
Ralph (name)
Rachmaninoff or Rachmaninov (name) / Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Russian composer and pianist
newly married couple / newlyweds
(Tw) Düsseldorf (city in Germany)
Tel Aviv / Tel Aviv-Jaffa
golf course
Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR 1966-1982
(coll.) he-man
husband of younger female cousin via female line
Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer
(literary) husband
older sister's husband
the EU Sakharov Human Rights Prize
to abandon one's husband and child(ren)
Slavic language
Cardiff
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚
Professional Golfer's Association (PGA)
Alexander Chayanov (1888-1937), Soviet agrarian economist
pole carrier / coffin-bearer
tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator
(idiom) one man guarding the pass can prevent the passage of ten thousand
Kliment Voroshilov (1881-1969), Soviet politician and military commander
Cleveland
man and wife fall out (idiom, from Book of Changes); marital strife
Loughborough, English city
to face a thousand pointing fingers with a cool scowl (citation from Lu Xun) / to treat with disdain / to defy
former husband
(old) dowager / old lady (title for the mother of a noble or an official)
porter
FUKUDA Yasuo (1936-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2007-2008
Yu Dafu (1896-1945), poet and novelist
Medvedyev (name) / Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, president of Russian Federation from 2008
to practice (work skills)

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