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HSK
husband
HSK 4
doctor; physician
HSK 3
skill / art / kung fu / labor / effort
HSK 3
period of time (may be months, or mere seconds) / spare time / skill / labor / effort
HSK 3
a manly man / a man of character
senior official (in imperial China)
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)
butcher / fig. murderous dictator
common person / ordinary guy / mortal man
peasant / farmer
coward
ordinary man / ignorant person / coarse fellow
scholar officials
mess cook (old)
Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), Japanese author, pen name of (平岡公威|平冈公威, Hiraoka Kimitake)
night watchman (in former times)
(archaic) term used by a husband to refer to himself when speaking to his wife
Yugoslavia (former country that existed in various forms from 1918 to 2003)
younger sister's husband
househusband
woodman / woodcutter
(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
(coll.) he-man
boatman
waffle (loanword)
Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle)
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
(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
husband of younger female cousin via female line
older sister's husband
Plovdiv, city in Bulgaria
Cardiff
waffle (loanword)
groom / stable lad / horsekeeper / pimp / procurer
pedicab driver
Ralph (name)
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
(loanword) golf
former husband
porter
FUKUDA Yasuo (1936-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2007-2008
Saint Joseph
to practice (work skills)
Pavlov (name) / Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), Russian experimental psychologist
to force into service / press-gang
Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachov (1742-1775), Russian Cossack, leader of peasant rebellion 1773-1775 against Catherine the Great
fisherman
Joseph (name)
Yu Dafu (1896-1945), poet and novelist
fiancé
male adulterer
married man
Tupolev, Russian plane maker
burlak (barge hauler)
honorific title during Tang to Qing times, approx. "Glorious grand master"
househusband
Gorbachev / Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931–2022), last president of the Soviet Union 1991–1995
Lebedev or Lebedyev (Russian surname)
a lot of people (literary)
husband of younger female cousin via male line
husband of older female cousin via male line
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist
Braşov, Romania
pole carrier / coffin-bearer
Mikhail Prokhorov (1965-), Russian billionaire and owner of the Brooklyn Nets (NBA team)
Sakharov (Russian name)
(Andrei) Sakharov
the Maldives (Tw)
Slavic
Wolf, Woolf (name)
Tel Aviv / Tel Aviv-Jaffa
married woman's lover
to maximize one's time / to catch some time out / to find enough time / (also 抓功夫)
(idiom) (of a woman) promiscuous; loose
Krakow
no poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.
Pervez Musharraf (1943-), Pakistani general and politician, president 2001-2008
Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close to Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea)
Khufu (pharaoh, reigned possibly 2590-2568 BC)
(old) laborer
sole ruler / dictator
to travel far and wide looking for sth, only to find it easily
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian chemist who introduced the periodic table
Lviv (Lvov), town in western Ukraine

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