Husband in Chinese
husband · HSK 2
丈夫
- 丈 zhang
- 夫 husband
Counted with 个: 一个丈夫
她丈夫是一名医生。 Her husband is a doctor.
Other ways to say husband
More words with 丈 or 夫
How do you say husband in Chinese?
Husband in Chinese is 丈夫 (zhàng fu). You can also say 老公 (lǎo gōng), 先生 (xiān sheng), 男人 (nán ren).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.