夫人
Chinese
husband; man | man; person; people | ||
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simp. and trad. (夫人) |
夫 | 人 | |
anagram | 人夫 | ||
Literally: “man['s] person”. |
Pronunciation
Noun
夫人
Synonyms
- (wife):
Dialectal synonyms of 妻子 (“wife”) [map]
Derived terms
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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夫 | 人 |
ふ Grade: 4 |
じん Grade: 1 |
on’yomi |
Etymology
From Literary Chinese, literally “helping person”.[1][2]
Noun
夫人 • (fujin)
- (honorific) (another person's) wife, married lady
- 彼は夫人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
- 彼は夫人をいっしょにつれてきた
- madam, Mrs.
- 私たちは劇場でブラウン夫人に会った
- Watashitachi wa gekijō de Buraun fujin ni atta
- We met Mrs. Brown at the theater
- 私たちは劇場でブラウン夫人に会った
- (archaic) wife of a nobleman
- (archaic) consort of the emperor
Synonyms
- 奥方 (okugata)
Derived terms
References
- 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。 - 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.
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