HSK 2 · Pronouns

丈夫 zhàngfu “husband” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 丈夫 means

  1. husband

How to say 丈夫

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale丈zhàng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own夫funeutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

丈夫 in a sentence

  1. 你丈夫叫什么？

    Nǐ zhàngfu jiào shénme?

    What’s your husband’s name?

    Sentence #5595206 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我和我的丈夫都是老师。

    Wǒ hé wǒ de zhàngfu dōu shì lǎoshī.

    My husband and I are both teachers.

    Sentence #1171771 from Tatoeba

  3. 我丈夫一边吃早餐一边读报纸。

    Wǒ zhàngfu yìbiān chī zǎocān yìbiān dú bàozhǐ.

    My husband reads the newspaper while eating breakfast.

    Sentence #2367490 from Tatoeba

How 丈夫 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 丈 (zhàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
丈zhàngmeasure of length, ten Chinese feet
  • 一one · yī
  • 又again · yòu
The character 夫 (fū) with each of its parts in a different colour
夫fūhusbandlight in 丈夫
  • 一one · yī
  • 大big · dà

Memory aidA grown man 大 with a hairpin 一 across his head: a man, a husband.

How to write 丈夫

丈 3 strokes · 夫 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

丈夫 (zhàngfu) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 丈夫 (zhàngfu). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 丈夫

Words with 夫

夫妻fūqī · husband and wife大夫dàifu · doctor功夫gōngfu · time and effort夫妇fūfù · married couple夫人fūrén · madam

More words: People, Body & Health

弟弟dìdi · younger brother妹妹mèimei · younger sister孩子háizi · child姓xìng · surname生病shēngbìng · to get sick眼睛yǎnjing · eye身体shēntǐ · body累lèi · tired

FAQs

丈夫 (zhàngfu) means “husband”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it zhàngfu: zhàng with a 4th tone, then fu with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 丈夫 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhangfu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 丈夫 from the suggestions. Typing zhangfu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
丈夫 is an HSK 2 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.