(fù) - father (formal/written) in Mandarin
fùTraditional: 父
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Translation
father (formal/written)
Word origin
A pictographic character showing a hand holding a stick or axe, the figure of authority in the household, hence father.
- Origin
- pictographic
- Root
- 父 (a pictograph of a hand holding a tool, the head of the household)
Stroke order
父
Examples
。
Her father is a doctor.
退。
My parents have both retired.
。
He looks just like his father.
。
He is as tall as his father.
。
His father died many years ago.
父 (fù) is the formal or written word for father. In speech 爸爸 dominates, but 父 lives on in 父亲 (father) and 父母 (parents) and any composition more formal than a chat.
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 父.
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