| 大丈夫 |
dà zhàng fu |
a manly man / a man of character |
| 大 |
dà |
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) |
| 大 |
dài |
see 大夫 |
| 丈 |
zhàng |
measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male |
| 丈夫 |
zhàng fu |
husband |
| 夫 |
fū |
husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old) |
| 夫 |
fú |
(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion) |