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  1. 1.husband
  2. 2.man
  3. 3.manual worker
  4. 4.conscripted laborer (old)
  1. 1.(classical) this, that
  2. 2.he, she, they
  3. 3.(exclamatory final particle)
  4. 4.(initial particle, introduces an opinion)

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.male adult; man
  2. 2.husband
  3. 3.manual worker
  4. 4.conscripted laborer
  5. 5.a transliteration of the Russian surname -в (-v) of the Slavic male surname suffix
  6. 6.A generic personal pronoun – he; she; it; they.
  7. 7.A generic demonstrative pronoun – this; that; these; those.
  8. 8.Sentence-initial particle which introduces a topic.
  9. 9.Sentence-final particle, meaning “Is it not?”.
  10. 10.Meaningless particle in the middle of a sentence.
  11. 11.full house

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Etymology

Pictogram (象形): a variant form of 大 (OC *daːds, *daːds) preserving its original meaning of 夫 (OC *pa, “man”). 大 and 夫 were originally used interchangeably before settling to their current meanings. The character was later also phonetically borrowed as an instance of jiajie (假借) for 夫 (OC *ba, “that”). Shuowen mistakes the added horizontal stroke for a hairpin. In ancient times, when men reached the age of 20, they bound their hair with a hairpin during the Guan Li ceremony. The hairpin would thus be interpreted as the sign of “a grownup man”. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pa (“male”), not to be confused with 父 (OC *paʔ, *baʔ, “father”).

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