Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 夫

Modern (Beijing) reading: fū

Preclassic Old Chinese: pa

Classic Old Chinese: pa

Western Han Chinese: pa

Eastern Han Chinese: pwa

Early Postclassic Chinese: pwo

Middle Postclassic Chinese: pwo

Late Postclassic Chinese: pwo

Middle Chinese: pü

English meaning : man, husband; suffix for men in various occupations

Russian meaning[s]: 1) мужчина; работник; крестьянин, земледелец; 2) муж, супруг; 3) Фу (фамилия); [fú] 1) этот; он; тот; 2) начальное слово, часто абзац, в вэньяне ведь, вот; 3) конечное вопросительное или восклицательное слово в вэньяне, вм. 乎; 4) древн. диал. к, в, вм. 于, 於

Shuowen gloss: 丈夫也.從大一.一以象せ.周制八寸為尺.十尺為丈.人長八尺.故曰丈夫. [499]

Comments: Also read OC *ba, MC bü (FQ 防無), Pek. fú 'this, that' (attested since Late Zhou); its etymology see under 彼.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 37

Four-angle index: 5061

Karlgren code: 0101 a-d

Vietnamese reading: phu

Jianchuan Bai: po4-

Dali Bai: po5-, po3 (他), pɨ3 (那)

Bijiang Bai: ba4 (他), po2- (那)

Shijing occurrences: 7.1_, 7.2_, 7.3_, 54.1, 54.4, 57.3

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Pă

Meaning: man, male

Chinese: 夫 *pa man.

Tibetan: pha-, -pa, -po male, man (affixes).

Burmese: phaʔ masculine affix.

Kiranti: *ba (~ bh-, -ǝ-, -o-)

Comments: Kham -pa the male of a species. Cf. *paH 'father' (perhaps the same root).

Kiranti etymology :

Proto-Kiranti: *ba-cǝ ( ~ bh-, -ǝ-, -o-)

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Meaning: husband

Tulung: bocü (AS) husband (now wocü under the influence of woscö man, see *[w]at-cǝ)

Limbu: phacā husband; (VD) yɛm-ba id.

Kulung: pusǝi

Limbu dictionary :

Entry: yɛmba

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Grammar: n.

Meaning: husband.

Kulung dictionary :

Entry: pusǝi

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Grammar: n.

Meaning: husband of paternal aunt

Nepali: phupājyū.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 81

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 夫

MC description : 遇合三平虞非

ZIHUI: 1133 0764

Beijing: fu 11

Jinan: fu 11

Xi'an: fu 11

Taiyuan: fu 1

Hankou: fu 11

Chengdu: fu 11

Yangzhou: fu 11

Suzhou: fu 11

Wenzhou: fo_y 11

Changsha: fu 11

Shuangfeng: xǝu 11

Nanchang: фu 11

Meixian: fu 11

Guangzhou: fu 11

Xiamen: hu 11

Chaozhou: hu 11

Fuzhou: xu 11

Shanghai: fu 3

Zhongyuan yinyun: fu 1; fu 12

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