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- (classical) this, that
- he, she, they
- (exclamatory final particle)
- (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
- Master (old form of address for teachers, scholars)
- (used sarcastically) pedant
Trad. 夫餘
- Pu'yo, Korean Buyeo (c. 200 BC-494 AD), ancient kingdom in northeast frontier region of China
- Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif (1901-1938), Ukrainian Soviet expert on Chinese affairs, secretly executed in Stalin's purges
Trad. 為夫
- (archaic) term used by a husband to refer to himself when speaking to his wife
- period of time (may be months, or mere seconds)
- spare time
- skill
- labor
- effort
- Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔子[Kong3 zi3]
Trad. 烏蘭夫
- Ulanhu (1906-1988), Soviet-trained Mongolian communist who became important PRC military leader
- Run Run Shaw (1907-2014), Hong Kong movie and television tycoon
Trad. 費工夫
- to spend a great deal of time and effort
- (of a task) demanding
- exacting
- Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692), wide-ranging scholar of the Ming-Qing transition
- (old) dowager
- old lady (title for the mother of a noble or an official)
Trad. 契訶夫
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian writer famous for his short stories and plays
- very concentrated type of tea drunk in Chaozhou, Fujian and Taiwan
Trad. 謝里夫
- Sharif (name)
- Nawaz Sharif (1949-), Pakistani politician
Trad. 王義夫
- Wang Yifu (1960-), male PRC pistol shooter and Olympic medalist
- Li Zhifu (c. 14th century), Yuan dynasty playwright in the 雜劇|杂剧[za2 ju4] style
- to maximize one's time
- to catch some time out
- to find enough time
- (also 抓工夫)
- Hofmann or Hoffman (name)
- August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892), German chemist
- Dustin Hoffman (1937-), US film actor
- to maximize one's time
- to catch some time out
- to find enough time
- (also 抓功夫)
- very concentrated type of tea consumed in Chaozhou, Fujian and Taiwan
- variant of 功夫茶[gong1 fu5 cha2]
- similarity in features of an old couple
- common facial traits that show predestination to be married together
Trad. 獨夫民賊
- tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator
- appearing to be praising others while actually praising yourself
- one's criticism of others exposes one's own faults
Trad. 沃爾夫獎
- the Wolf Prize (for science and arts)
Trad. 拉夫羅夫
- Lavrov (name)
- Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004
- Yugoslavia (former country that existed in various forms from 1918 to 2003)
Trad. 羅斯托夫
- Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close to Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea)
Trad. 羅斯涅夫
- Rosneft (Russian state oil company)
- Madame Tussaud (1761–1850), French wax sculptor who founded the eponymous wax museum in London
Trad. 門捷列夫
- Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian chemist who introduced the periodic table
- a couple in a short-lived, improper relationship
Trad. 赫魯曉夫
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), secretary-general of Soviet Communist Party 1953–1964
Trad. 赫魯雪夫
- see 赫魯曉夫|赫鲁晓夫[He4 lu3 xiao3 fu5]
Trad. 販夫俗子
- peddlers and common people
- lower class
- weekend spouse
- relationship involving a sugar-daddy
Trad. 販夫走卒
- lit. peddlers and carriers
- common people
- lower class
Trad. 薩克洛夫
- Sakharov (name)
- Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), Soviet nuclear physicist and dissident human rights activist
Trad. 農夫山泉
- Nongfu Spring, Chinese bottled water and beverage company
Trad. 光祿大夫
- honorific title during Tang to Qing times, approx. "Glorious grand master"
- Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist
Trad. 薩哈羅夫
- Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), Russian nuclear scientist and dissident human rights activist
Trad. 和達清夫
- Wadati Kiyoō (1902-1995), pioneer Japanese seismologist
- Lamivudine, reverse transcriptase inhibitor marketed by GlaxoSmithKline and widely used in the treatment of hepatitis B and AIDS
- brand names include Zeffix, Heptovir, Epivir and Epivir-HBV
Trad. 恰亞諾夫
- Alexander Chayanov (1888-1937), Soviet agrarian economist
Trad. 雙獨夫婦
- a married couple allowed dispensation to have second child
Trad. 列別傑夫
- variant of 列別捷夫|列别捷夫[Lie4 bie2 jie2 fu1]
Trad. 列別捷夫
- Lebedev or Lebedyev (Russian surname)
- Chinese translation of "kung flu", a term used by US President Trump in 2020 to refer to COVID-19 as a "Chinese" disease
Trad. 民賊獨夫
- tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator
Trad. 代爾夫特
- Delft, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands
- to assist one's husband and educate the children (idiom)
- the traditional roles of a good wife
- Pervez Musharraf (1943-), Pakistani general and politician, president 2001-2008
Trad. 東亞病夫
- (derog.) the sick man of Asia (term used in the West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to refer to China in its weakened state after the Opium Wars)
Trad. 普加喬夫
- Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachov (1742-1775), Russian Cossack, leader of peasant rebellion 1773-1775 against Catherine the Great
Trad. 拋夫棄子
- to abandon one's husband and child(ren)
Trad. 萬夫不當
- lit. unbeatable by even 10,000 men (idiom)
- fig. extremely brave and strong
Trad. 居禮夫人
- variant of 居里夫人[Ju1 li3 fu1 ren5]
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie or Marie Curie (1867–1934), Nobel laureate in both physics (1903) and chemistry (1911)
- Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), American author and biochemist
Trad. 人盡可夫
- (idiom) (of a woman) promiscuous; loose
- Pavlov (name)
- Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), Russian experimental psychologist
Trad. 畢尼奧夫
- Hugo Benioff (1899-1968), Caltech seismologist
Trad. 夫唱婦隨
- fig. the man sings and the woman follows
- fig. marital harmony
- FUKUDA Yasuo (1936-), Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2007-2008
- man and wife fall out (idiom, from Book of Changes); marital strife
- popular Sichuan cold dish made of thinly sliced beef and beef offal