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丈夫 (zhàng fu): meaning and stroke order

丈夫 (zhàng fu) means husband.

丈夫

Simplified
丈夫
Traditional
丈夫 (same form)
Pinyin
zhàng fu

Stroke order of 丈夫

丈

  • zhàng measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m); to measure
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

夫

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 丈夫

  1. zhàng fu
    • husband

Radicals of the characters

丈
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 3 strokes · built from 𠂇 and 乀
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.

丈夫 in our stories

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  • 他又问了死者的妻子。妻子说，丈夫为人老实，从不跟人结仇，只是前几天，有个邻居来借钱，被他拒绝了。

    tā yòu wèn le sǐzhě de qīzi qīzi shuō zhàngfu wéirén lǎoshi cóng bù gēn rén jié chóu zhǐshì qián jǐ tiān yǒu gè línjū lái jiè qián bèi tā jùjué le

    He also questioned the dead man's wife. She said her husband was honest and had never made an enemy; only a few days before, a neighbour had come to borrow money and been refused.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

  • 端午节到了，许仙给妻子倒了一杯酒。白素贞怀着孩子，本来不想喝，又怕丈夫起疑心，只好喝了下去。

    Duānwǔjié dào le Xǔ Xiān gěi qīzi dào le yì bēi jiǔ Bái Sùzhēn huái zhe háizi běnlái bù xiǎng hē yòu pà zhàngfu qǐ yíxīn zhǐhǎo hē le xiàqu

    The Dragon Boat Festival came and Xu Xian poured his wife a cup of wine. Bai Suzhen, who was pregnant, didn't want to drink it, but afraid of arousing her husband's suspicion, she drank it down.

    From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 丈夫

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).