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Mythic Mandarin

夫 (fū): meaning and stroke order

夫 (fū) means husband, man, manual worker, conscripted laborer (old), (classical) this, that.

夫

Simplified
夫
Traditional
夫 (same form)
Pinyin
fū · fú

Stroke order of 夫

夫

  • fū husband; man
  • fú (classical) this, that; he, she, they
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 夫

  1. fū
    • husband
    • man
    • manual worker
    • conscripted laborer (old)
  2. fú
    • (classical) this, that
    • he, she, they
    • (exclamatory final particle)
    • (initial particle, introduces an opinion)

Radical and structure

夫
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 4 strokes · built from 二 and 人

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 夫

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).