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HSK
period of time (may be months, or mere seconds) / spare time / skill / labor / effort
HSK 3
doctor; physician
HSK 3
skill / art / kung fu / labor / effort
HSK 3
husband
HSK 4
variant of 下工夫
HSK 7-9
rickshaw puller
the Maldives
M.A. Balakirev, Russian composer
burlak (barge hauler)
no poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.
(old) laborer
fisher / fisherman
Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR 1966-1982
married man; husband (as a social role)
male adulterer
Alexander Chayanov (1888-1937), Soviet agrarian economist
Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), Japanese author, pen name of (平岡公威|平冈公威, Hiraoka Kimitake)
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (1885-1919), Bolshevik organizer, ordered the murder of the Tsar's family in 1918, died of Spanish influenza
Steve (male name)
porter
Pervez Musharraf (1943-), Pakistani general and politician, president 2001-2008
a manly man / a man of character
Plovdiv, city in Bulgaria
bachelor / unmarried man
(loanword) golf
the Maldives (Tw)
(coll.) older sister's husband
senior official (in imperial China)
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian polymath and writer
Jeff or Geoff (name)
peasant / farmer
fisherman
(Andrei) Sakharov
fiancé
Joseph (name)
Tel Aviv / Tel Aviv-Jaffa
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husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)
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  *夫* | 夫* | *夫
(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
to force into service / press-gang
Wang Yifu (1960-), male PRC pistol shooter and Olympic medalist
Gorbachev / Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931–2022), last president of the Soviet Union 1991–1995
Sakharov (Russian name)
married woman's lover
Kraft, US food company
common person / ordinary guy / mortal man
woodman / woodcutter
former husband
Wolf, Woolf (name)
Braşov, Romania
married man
Ralph (name)
older sister's husband
Medvedyev (name) / Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, president of Russian Federation from 2008
to spend a great deal of time and effort / (of a task) demanding / exacting
groom / stable lad / horsekeeper / pimp / procurer
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays
a lot of people (literary)
Lavrov (name) / Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004
old wifeless man; bachelor; widower
sole ruler / dictator
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953–1964
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), American author and biochemist
Najaf (city in Iraq, a Shia holy city)
Tupolev, Russian plane maker
(coll.) he-man
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765), famous Russian chemist and polymath
butcher / fig. murderous dictator
scholar officials
cart driver / coachman
street cleaner / garbage collector / (soccer) sweeper
(archaic) term used by a husband to refer to himself when speaking to his wife
boatman
Rachmaninoff or Rachmaninov (name) / Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Russian composer and pianist
(coll.) quack (doctor) / charlatan
Kliment Voroshilov (1881-1969), Soviet politician and military commander
Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), Russian nuclear scientist and dissident human rights activist
ordinary man / ignorant person / coarse fellow
Sakharov (name) / Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), Soviet nuclear physicist and dissident human rights activist
househusband
night watchman (in former times)
Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachov (1742-1775), Russian Cossack, leader of peasant rebellion 1773-1775 against Catherine the Great
traveler / soldier on expedition / soldier taking part in battle
Cardiff
lover (of a woman) / illicit partner / paramour
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist
Moiseyev (name) / Igor Aleksandrovich Moiseyev (1906-2007), choreographer of folk dance and founder of Moiseyev dance company
Krakow
mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister
Pavlov (name) / Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), Russian experimental psychologist
(idiom) (of a woman) promiscuous; loose
Kasimov (town in Russia)
mess cook (old)
pole carrier / coffin-bearer
tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator
to maximize one's time / to catch some time out / to find enough time / (also 抓功夫)
husband of younger female cousin via female line
Lebedev or Lebedyev (Russian surname)
father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle
Mikhail Prokhorov (1965-), Russian billionaire and owner of the Brooklyn Nets (NBA team)

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