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夫 kanji
husband, man
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
フフウブ
Kun readings
おっとそれ
Words with 夫
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —点灯夫lamplighter; town employee who lit oil or gas streetlights
- —竹夫人bamboo wife; Dutch wife
- —夫源病physical and mental disorders in a wife due to her husband's words and actions
- —炭坑夫coal miner; collier
- —漁夫る(of a third party) to profit from others fighting
- —水夫長boatswain
- —一妻多夫polyandry
- —一夫一婦monogamy
- —一夫多妻polygamy; polygyny
- —侯爵夫人marchioness
- —公爵夫人princess; duchess
- —匹夫の勇rash courage
- —匹夫匹婦coarse men and women
- —田夫野人rustic; boor; hick
- —漁夫の利profiting while others fight; fisherman's profit
- —夫唱婦随a wife should do her husband's bidding
- —男爵夫人baroness
- —専業主夫full-time househusband; stay-at-home dad
- —万夫不当being a match for thousands; being a mighty warrior (combatant)
- —一夫一妻monogamy