父

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

father

HSK 3 N4

fù

フ

ちち

부, 보

Pictograph of a hand holding something. The exact nature of the object is unclear. Variously explained as a rod or a hatchet.

Notes

Historical Evolution

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

父

Regular

Modern

Chinese

父 [fù]

father

Japanese

父ちち、ちゃん (old) 、てて (old) 、かぞ (old) 、かそ (old) 、しし (old) 、あて (old) 同音

noun humble father

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (1)

私の父は大の旅行好きです。

My father is a great traveler.

Japanese Names

父ちち

Chichi surname

CHINESE WORDS (116)

Christian priest or clergyman

师父 [shīfu] #8,058

used for 師傅|师傅 (in Taiwan)

师父 [shīfu] #8,058

used for 師傅|师傅 (in Taiwan)

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JAPANESE WORDS (148)

⭐ 父親 [ちちおや] #983

father

⭐ お父さん [おとうさん] #1,372

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KOREAN WORDS (27)

부모 #5,388

parents

신부 #6,154

Father; Catholic priest

patriarch; head of household

great-great grandfather

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