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丈夫

zhàng fu 4–5

husband

HSK level
HSK 4
HSK 2.0 level 2 · HSK 3.0 level 4
Characters
2
丈 · 夫
Syllables
2
zhàng fu
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,376

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 丈zhàng3 strokesHSK 2unit of length equal 3.3 meters; gentleman, man, husband
  • 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

  • 他是我丈夫。

    T sh w zh ngfu

    He is my husband.

  • 你丈夫叫什么？

    Nǐ zhàng fu jiào shén me

    What's your husband's name?

  • 我丈夫也是老师。

    Wǒ zhàng fu yě shì lǎo shī

    My husband is a teacher, too.

  • 她比丈夫多活十年。

    Tā bǐ zhàng fu duō huó shí nián

    She survived her husband by ten years.

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 丈夫. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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