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夫
JLPT N3 SL4 4 strokes Frequency: #335

Meanings

Husband, Man

Radicals

大

Decomposition

⿻一大

Etymology

Ideographic: A man 大 wearing a coming-of-age hairpin 一

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 4

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
2 horizontal bottom-to-top
3 diagonal top-to-bottom
4 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
ブ bu
フ fu
フウ fuu
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
それ sore
おっと oto

Words Using This Kanji

140 words total
Other (20 words)
老夫婦 ろうふうふ

old couple

太夫 たゆう

high-ranking noh actor

村夫子 そんぷうし

rural scholar

炊夫 すいふ

male cook

間夫 まぶ

(male) lover (esp. of a prostitute)

車夫 しゃふ

rickshaw puller

賢夫人 けんぷじん

wise wife

一工夫 ひとくふう

a bit of contrivance

役夫 えきふ

laborer

有夫 ゆうふ

having a husband

牧夫 ぼくふ

herdsman

漁夫の利 ぎょふのり

profiting while others fight

雑役夫 ざつえきふ

handyman

農夫症 のうふしょう

farmer's syndrome

田夫 でんぷ

peasant

夫唱婦随 ふしょうふずい

a wife should do her husband's bidding

煙突掃除夫 えんとつそうじふ

chimney sweep

夫を立てる おっとをたてる

to treat one's husband with due respect

継夫 けいふ

second husband

旧夫 きゅうふ

former husband

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