夫人

Chinese

husband; man man; person; people
simp. and trad.
(夫人)
anagram 人夫
Literally: “man['s] person”.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 2/2 1/1
Initial () (1) (38)
Final () (24) (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter pju nyin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pɨo/ /ȵiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/pio/ /ȵin/
Shao
Rongfen
/pio/ /ȵʑjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/puə̆/ /ȵin/
Li
Rong
/pio/ /ȵiĕn/
Wang
Li
/pĭu/ /ȵʑĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pi̯u/ /ȵʑi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
rén
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fu1 jan4

Noun

夫人

  1. (polite) lady; madam; Mrs. (Classifier: )
    夫人夫人   Wáng fūrén lái le.   Mrs. Wang has arrived.
    戴卓爾夫人戴卓尔夫人 [Cantonese]   daai3 coek3 ji5 fu1 jan4 [Jyutping]   (Hong Kong) Margaret Thatcher
  2. (historical) wife (of a feudal lord)
  3. (historical, Han dynasty) wife (of a man of the gentry)
  4. (historical) concubine (of a monarch)

Synonyms

  • (wife):

Derived terms

  • 二夫人
  • 包法利夫人
  • 周郎妙計高天下,賠了夫人又折兵周郎妙计高天下,赔了夫人又折兵
  • 地下夫人
  • 壓寨夫人压寨夫人
  • 夫人城
  • 夫人縣君夫人县君
  • 夫人裙帶夫人裙带
  • 太夫人
  • 如夫人
  • 婢作夫人
  • 婢學夫人婢学夫人
  • 嫂夫人
  • 尊夫人 (zūnfūrén)
  • 小夫人
  • 龐巴度夫人庞巴度夫人
  • 息夫人
  • 憂愁夫人忧愁夫人
  • 抗戰夫人抗战夫人
  • 押寨夫人
  • 摩耶夫人
  • 查泰萊夫人的情人查泰莱夫人的情人
  • 海夫人
  • 湘夫人
  • 竹夫人 (zhúfūrén)
  • 第一夫人 (dì-yī fūrén)
  • 管夫人
  • 臨水夫人临水夫人
  • 花蕊夫人
  • 蝴蝶夫人
  • 賠了夫人又折兵赔了夫人又折兵 (péi le fūrén yòu zhébīng)
  • 陪了夫人又折兵

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (夫人):

Others:

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
じん
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Etymology

From Literary Chinese, literally “helping person”.[1][2]

Noun

()(じん) • (fujin) 

  1. (honorific) (another person's) wife, married lady
    (かれ)夫人(ふじん)をいっしょにつれてきた
    Kare wa fujin o issho ni tsurete-kita
    He was accompanied by his wife
  2. madam, Mrs.
    (わたし)たちは劇場(げきじょう)でブラウン夫人(ふじん)()った
    Watashitachi wa gekijō de Buraun fujin ni atta
    We met Mrs. Brown at the theater
  3. (archaic) wife of a nobleman
  4. (archaic) consort of the emperor

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

  1. Book of Rites, 曲禮下:
    天子之妃曰后,諸侯曰夫人,大夫曰孺人,士曰婦人,庶人曰妻。
  2. Shiming, 釋親屬:
    諸侯之妃曰夫人,夫,扶也,扶助其君也。
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

夫人 • (bu'in) (hangeul 부인)

  1. Hanja form? of 부인 ((honorific) (another person's) wife).

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

夫人

  1. chữ Hán form of phu nhân (lady).
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