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HSK
period of time (may be months, or mere seconds) / spare time / skill / labor / effort
HSK 3
skill / art / kung fu / labor / effort
HSK 3
military skill or technique (in former times) / all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development) / self-defense / tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage) / also called kungfu 功夫 / CL: 種|种
HSK 3
doctor; physician
HSK 3
husband
HSK 4
a (married) couple / husband and wife / CL: 對|对
HSK 4
lady / madam / Mrs. / CL:
HSK 4
husband and wife; married couple
HSK 4
golf / golf ball
HSK 7-9
variant of 下工夫
HSK 7-9
Minkowski (name) / Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909), German mathematician
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *大* | 大* | *大
see 大夫
Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔夫子
Jobs (name) / see also 史蒂夫·喬布斯|史蒂夫·乔布斯, Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs (1955-2011), US co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc.
monogamy
Yugoslavia (former country that existed in various forms from 1918 to 2003)
peddler / street vendor
(loanword) golf
(old) concubine
Lebedev or Lebedyev (Russian surname)
husband of older female cousin via female line
tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator
Gorbachev / Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931–2022), last president of the Soviet Union 1991–1995
former husband
Plovdiv, city in Bulgaria
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基
Master (old form of address for teachers, scholars) / (used sarcastically) pedant
to put in time and energy / to concentrate one's efforts
(coll.) older sister's husband
younger sister's husband
(honorific) husband
peasant / farmer
(old) laborer
fisherman
street cleaner / garbage collector / (soccer) sweeper
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), Russian novelist
the Wolf Prize (for science and arts)
Steve (male name)
Novgorod, city in Russia
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)
First Lady (wife of US president)
Wolf, Woolf (name)
tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator
Lady Macbeth
married man; husband (as a social role)
Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer
Hofmann or Hoffman (name) / August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892), German chemist / Dustin Hoffman (1937-), US film actor
Ralph (name)
(idiom) one man guarding the pass can prevent the passage of ten thousand
The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society.
Joseph (name)
mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister
ordinary man / ignorant person / coarse fellow
scholar officials
groom / stable lad / horsekeeper / pimp / procurer
Boötes (constellation)
Wroclaw, Polish city
butcher / fig. murderous dictator
(in ancient times) a man old enough for corvée or military service
Zi Lu (542-480 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子, also known as Ji Lu 季路
old wifeless man; bachelor; widower
male adulterer
I (spoken by an old man)
Nongfu Spring, Chinese bottled water and beverage company
boatman
(sports) high ball; lob / (Tw, HK) golf (abbr. for 高爾夫球|高尔夫球) / highball (cocktail)
Düsseldorf (city in Germany)
Medvedyev (name) / Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, president of Russian Federation from 2008
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer
lover (of a woman) / illicit partner / paramour
Sharif (name) / Nawaz Sharif (1949-), Pakistani politician
polygamy
common people; ordinary folk
Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close to Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea)
Tel Aviv / Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Jeff or Geoff (name)
Arcturus (brightest star in the constellation Boötes 牧夫座)
fig. the man sings and the woman follows / fig. marital harmony
Auriga (constellation)
burlak (barge hauler)
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer / Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886), Russian playwright
mess cook (old)
Pavlov (name) / Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), Russian experimental psychologist
a couple in a short-lived, improper relationship
Lamivudine, reverse transcriptase inhibitor marketed by GlaxoSmithKline and widely used in the treatment of hepatitis B and AIDS / brand names include Zeffix, Heptovir, Epivir and Epivir-HBV
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840-1893), Russian composer, composer of 6 symphonies and the opera Eugene Onegin
father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle
lit. unbeatable by even 10,000 men (idiom) / fig. extremely brave and strong
Khabarovsk, far eastern Russian city and province on the border with Heilongjiang province of China
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953–1964
Dubrovnik (city in Croatia)
porter / bearer
Cardiff
lit. peddlers and carriers / common people / lower class
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator
Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940-), president of Kazakhstan 1990-2019

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