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HSK
husband
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *大* | 大* | *大
see 大夫
a manly man / a man of character
Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔夫子
senior official (in imperial China)
doctor; physician
HSK 3
newly married couple / newlyweds
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
taffeta
Jobs (name) / see also 史蒂夫·喬布斯|史蒂夫·乔布斯, Steve Jobs
a (married) couple / husband and wife / CL: 對|对
HSK 4
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
Steve Jobs (1955-2011), US co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc.
butcher / fig. murderous dictator
common person / ordinary guy / mortal man
(honorific) husband
lit. unbeatable by even 10,000 men (idiom) / fig. extremely brave and strong
peasant / farmer
skill / art / kung fu / labor / effort
HSK 3
very concentrated type of tea drunk in Chaozhou, Fujian and Taiwan
coward
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
ordinary man / ignorant person / coarse fellow
scholar officials
mess cook (old)
courtesy name for Confucius 孔夫子
Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), Japanese author, pen name of (平岡公威|平冈公威, Hiraoka Kimitake)
Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔子
night watchman (in former times)
(archaic) term used by a husband to refer to himself when speaking to his wife
similarity in features of an old couple / common facial traits that show predestination to be married together
family-run shop
golf course
popular Sichuan cold dish made of thinly sliced beef and beef offal
Yugoslavia (former country that existed in various forms from 1918 to 2003)
Kevlar
weekend spouse / relationship involving a sugar-daddy
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), Russian novelist
Master (old form of address for teachers, scholars) / (used sarcastically) pedant
polygamy
younger sister's husband
Steve Jobs (1955-2011), US co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc.
househusband
woodman / woodcutter
Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基
golf / golf ball
HSK 7-9
common people; ordinary folk
(coll.) older sister's husband
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays
lover (of a woman) / illicit partner / paramour
Mrs Thatcher / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
to face a thousand pointing fingers with a cool scowl (citation from Lu Xun) / to treat with disdain / to defy
(coll.) he-man
boatman
waffle (loanword)
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
Arcturus (brightest star in the constellation Boötes 牧夫座)
Kraft, US food company
to maximize one's time / to catch some time out / to find enough time / (also 抓工夫)
Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), Russian nuclear scientist and dissident human rights activist
married man; husband (as a social role)
Kasimov (town in Russia)
Lavrov (name) / Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004
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
ordinary people; commoners
(Tw) Düsseldorf (city in Germany)
Wang Yifu (1960-), male PRC pistol shooter and Olympic medalist
Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR 1966-1982
The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society.
fig. the man sings and the woman follows / fig. marital harmony
husband of younger female cousin via female line
Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer
(literary) husband
older sister's husband
Plovdiv, city in Bulgaria
the Wolf Prize (for science and arts)
Cardiff
waffle (loanword)
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚
Slavic language
groom / stable lad / horsekeeper / pimp / procurer
pedicab driver
Zi Lu (542-480 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子, also known as Ji Lu 季路
(idiom) one man guarding the pass can prevent the passage of ten thousand
husband and wife; married couple
HSK 4
man and wife fall out (idiom, from Book of Changes); marital strife
Loughborough, English city
Ralph (name)
married woman
a rank in government service
to spend a great deal of time and effort / (of a task) demanding / exacting
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953–1964
porter for a palanquin

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