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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
doctor; physician
HSK 3
husband
HSK 4
variant of 下工夫
HSK 7-9
Yugoslavia (former country that existed in various forms from 1918 to 2003)
former husband
street cleaner / garbage collector / (soccer) sweeper
peddler / street vendor
Lebedev or Lebedyev (Russian surname)
husband of older female cousin via female line
Gorbachev / Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931–2022), last president of the Soviet Union 1991–1995
Plovdiv, city in Bulgaria
to put in time and energy / to concentrate one's efforts
(coll.) older sister's husband
younger sister's husband
peasant / farmer
(old) laborer
fisherman
Steve (male name)
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  *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)
Wolf, Woolf (name)
tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator
married man; husband (as a social role)
Ralph (name)
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
Wroclaw, Polish city
butcher / fig. murderous dictator
(in ancient times) a man old enough for corvée or military service
old wifeless man; bachelor; widower
male adulterer
I (spoken by an old man)
boatman
Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close to Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea)
Düsseldorf (city in Germany)
Medvedyev (name) / Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, president of Russian Federation from 2008
Sharif (name) / Nawaz Sharif (1949-), Pakistani politician
Tel Aviv / Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Jeff or Geoff (name)
burlak (barge hauler)
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist
M.A. Balakirev, Russian composer
mess cook (old)
Pavlov (name) / Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), Russian experimental psychologist
father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953–1964
porter / bearer
Cardiff
Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940-), president of Kazakhstan 1990-2019
a manly man / a man of character
Pervez Musharraf (1943-), Pakistani general and politician, president 2001-2008
Najaf (city in Iraq, a Shia holy city)
sole ruler / dictator
older sister's husband
Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR 1966-1982
porter
fiancé
pole carrier / coffin-bearer
the Maldives
senior official (in imperial China)
waffle (loanword)
fisher / fisherman
(archaic) term used by a husband to refer to himself when speaking to his wife
Run Run Shaw (1907-2014), Hong Kong movie and television tycoon
bachelor / unmarried man
to force into service / press-gang
lover (of a woman) / illicit partner / paramour
husband of younger female cousin via female line
Slavic
Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif (1901-1938), Ukrainian Soviet expert on Chinese affairs, secretly executed in Stalin's purges
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (1885-1919), Bolshevik organizer, ordered the murder of the Tsar's family in 1918, died of Spanish influenza
Rosneft (Russian state oil company)
Yu Dafu (1896-1945), poet and novelist
Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), Japanese author, pen name of (平岡公威|平冈公威, Hiraoka Kimitake)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays
Wang Yifu (1960-), male PRC pistol shooter and Olympic medalist
waffle (loanword)
Lavrov (name) / Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004
traveler / soldier on expedition / soldier taking part in battle
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), American author and biochemist
porter for a palanquin
househusband
(loanword) golf
(coll.) quack (doctor) / charlatan
pedicab driver
married man
Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle)
married woman's lover
Khufu (pharaoh, reigned possibly 2590-2568 BC)
(coll.) he-man
FUKUDA Yasuo (1936-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2007-2008
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian polymath and writer
househusband
no poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.
to spend a great deal of time and effort / (of a task) demanding / exacting

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