Chinese Character Wiki
夫

fū, fú

man

Pictograph of a man. The top horizontal stroke either distinguishes it from the character 大 or depicts a hairpin, something men would tie on their hair.

Components
一 distinguishing component

一  Distinguishing component

yī

  

one

大 iconic component

大  Iconic component

dà, dài

  

big

Pictograph of a person standing up.

Evolution

夫 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
夫 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
夫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
夫 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
夫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

夫  

fū

man, male adult, husband; those; husband; man; manual worker; conscripted laborer (old)

夫  

fú

(classical) this, that; he, she, they; (exclamatory final particle); (initial particle, introduces an opinion)

Most common words with 夫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

丈夫

husband

夫人

lady

夫

man

夫妻

husband and wife

夫妇

a (married) couple

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

伕

Sound component in 9 characters (1 verified)

肤 扶 芙 趺 蚨 呋 麸 麩 伕

Iconic component in 4 characters (4 verified)

替 矩 辇 輦

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*p(r)a

pju

fū

man

*[b]a

bju

fú

this, that

*ba

bju

fú

final particle


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 72.6734% of movies

313th most common character in movies

377th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+592B

Shuowen

“夫，丈夫也。从大，一以象簪也。周制以八寸為尺，十尺為丈，人長八尺，故曰丈夫。”


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