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父亲fù qīn
father
Definitions
| Chinese > English | |
| 父亲 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 父親 | |
| 父親 | fùqīn |
| 1. n. (formal) father | |
| 他 的 父親 看起qi來lai 是 一 位 精神 矍鑠 的 老人。 - His father looks like a sprightly old man. | |
| 你 這麼 說 可是 冤枉wang 你 父親 了。 - You are doing your father wrong by speaking like this. | |
| 我 父親 總是 說 天 助 自 助 者。 - My father always said that heaven helps those who help themselves. | |
| English > Chinese | |
| father | |
| 1. 名词. 父亲；爸爸 | |
| 2. 名词. (复)祖先 | |
| 3. 名词. 创始人；奠基者；先驱；鼻祖 | |
| 4. 名词. 天父；上帝 | |
| 5. 名词. （尤指天主教和东正教的）神父 | |
| 6. 动词. 作为父亲，成为父亲；养育 | |
| Components | |
| 父 | fù |
| 1. father | |
| 父親 (fùqīn) - (formal) father | |
| 父母 (fùmǔ) - parents; father and mother | |
| 父子 (fùzǐ) - father and son | |
| 父女 (fùnǚ) - father and daughter | |
| 父輩 (fùbèi) - one's father's generation | |
| 家父 (jiāfù) - (humble) my father | |
| 生父 (shēngfù) - biological father | |
| 養父 (yǎngfù) - adoptive father | |
| 繼父 (jìfù) - stepfather | |
| 天父 (tiānfù) - (Christianity) Heavenly Father | |
| 國父 (guófù) - father of a nation; (specifically) Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen) | |
| 雜交 水稻 之 父 (zájiāo shuǐdào zhī fù) - (specifically) Father of Hybrid Rice (Yuan Longping) | |
| Antonyms: 母 | |
| 2. (Used to address a male elder member of a family.) | |
| 祖父 (zǔfù) - paternal grandfather (one's father's father) | |
| 伯父 (bófù) - paternal uncle (father's elder brother) | |
| 叔父 (shūfù) - paternal uncle (father's younger brother) | |
| 岳父 (yuèfù) - father-in-law (wife's father) | |
| 舅父 (jiùfù) - maternal uncle (mother's brother) | |
| 姨父 (yífù) - maternal uncle (husband of mother's sister) | |
| 姑父 (gūfù) - paternal uncle (husband of father's sister) | |
| Antonyms: 母 | |
| 3. (literary, respectful) old man; elderly man | |
| 漁父fǔ (yúfǔ) - old fisherman | |
| 田父fǔ (tiánfǔ) - old farmer | |
| 4. (literary) Alternative form of 甫 ((honorific suffix used after a man's name;) courtesy name) | |
| 梁父fǔ山（^梁甫山） (Liángfǔshān (Liángfǔshān)) - Mount Liangfu (alternately, Mount Liangfu) (in Shandong, China) | |
| 亲 | |
| 1. Variant of 親 | |
| 2. Variant of 辛 | |
| 親 | qìng |
| 1. Simplified form of 嚫 | |
| 辛 | xīn |
| 1. spicy; hot; pungent | |
| 辛辣 - spicy - | |
| 2. hard; laborious; toilsome | |
| 辛苦 - laborious - | |
| 3. sorrowful; miserable; hard | |
| 辛酸 - bitter - | |
| 辛 ^棄-疾 - (Xin Qiji, Xin Qiji - (Chinese poet during the Southern Song dynasty)) | |
| 4. eighth of the ten heavenly stems | |
| 5. (in a list) eighth; number 8; VIII | |
| 6. (organic chemistry) octa- | |
| 7. (mathematics, attributive) symplectic | |
| 8. Used in transcription | |
Pronunciation
fù qīn
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