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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)
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)
butcher / fig. murderous dictator
common person / ordinary guy / mortal man
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)
night watchman (in former times)
peasant / farmer
Yugoslavia (former country that existed in various forms from 1918 to 2003)
(loanword) golf
no poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.
younger sister's husband
househusband
woodman / woodcutter
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays
(coll.) older sister's husband
lover (of a woman) / illicit partner / paramour
boatman
Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle)
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
(Tw) Düsseldorf (city in Germany)
Tel Aviv / Tel Aviv-Jaffa
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
older sister's husband
Cardiff
Alexander Chayanov (1888-1937), Soviet agrarian economist
pole carrier / coffin-bearer
Kliment Voroshilov (1881-1969), Soviet politician and military commander
former husband
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)
Pavlov (name) / Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), Russian experimental psychologist
to force into service / press-gang
Wolf, Woolf (name)
fiancé
male adulterer
honorific title during Tang to Qing times, approx. "Glorious grand master"
househusband
(derog.) the sick man of Asia (term used in the West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to refer to China in its weakened state after the Opium Wars)
fisher / fisherman
Sakharov (Russian name)
Lviv (Lvov), town in western Ukraine
Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940-), president of Kazakhstan 1990-2019
a lot of people (literary)
Tupolev, Russian plane maker
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
Rosneft (Russian state oil company)
Hatoyama Yukio (1947-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister 2009-2010
Slavic
Moiseyev (name) / Igor Aleksandrovich Moiseyev (1906-2007), choreographer of folk dance and founder of Moiseyev dance company
married woman's lover
to maximize one's time / to catch some time out / to find enough time / (also 抓功夫)
Krakow
married man
Pervez Musharraf (1943-), Pakistani general and politician, president 2001-2008
Khufu (pharaoh, reigned possibly 2590-2568 BC)
cart driver / coachman
(old) laborer
waffle (loanword)
Joseph (name)
waffle (loanword)
Lebedev or Lebedyev (Russian surname)
father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle
Ulanhu (1906-1988), Soviet-trained Mongolian communist who became important PRC military leader
I (spoken by an old man)
to travel far and wide looking for sth, only to find it easily
Run Run Shaw (1907-2014), Hong Kong movie and television tycoon
Wroclaw, Polish city
Lavrov (name) / Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004
burlak (barge hauler)
street cleaner / garbage collector / (soccer) sweeper
Abu Sayyaf, militant Islamist separatist group also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya
the Maldives

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