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大夫

dà fū 4–1

senior official (in imperial China)

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
大 · 夫
Syllables
2
dà fū
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 6,248

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 大dà3 strokesHSK 1big, great, vast, large, high
  • 夫fū4 strokesHSK 2man, male adult, husband; those

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 她以为我是大夫。

    Tā yǐ wéi wǒ shì dài fu

    She thought that I was a doctor.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 大夫. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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