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| 夫 fū |
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| Explanation: man; husband |
| 夫妇 husband and wife 夫人 lady;Madame;Mrs |
古时，一个男孩子到了二十岁，就要用发簪把头发束起来，还要戴上一顶帽子，表示已是成年人，成年后的男子称“夫”。“夫”字还包含着受别人尊敬的意思。
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夫 is formed by adding a horizontal stroke above “person”（ ）, yet this horizontal stroke does not mean “head of the person”. Rather, it means the hairpin in a man’s hair. In ancient times, when a boy reached the age of 20, he had to bind his hair with a hairpin in a ritual initation, to be considered a grown up man. Therefore, the hairpin is the sign of “a grownup man ”,and this is also the original meaning of夫
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