tòng phu
Pronunciation
Northern
/ta̤wŋ˨˩ fu˧˧/
Central
/tawŋ˧˧ fu˧˥/
Southern
/tawŋ˨˩ fu˧˧/
follow one's husband
Verb
follow one's husband
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Meaning
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Meaning
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Sense 1
Verb
follow one's husband
A verb referring to a wife following and obeying her husband according to traditional values.
vi Phụ nữ ngày xưa thường phải tòng phu.
en Women in the past often had to follow their husbands.
Parts
phu / 從夫
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Parts
phu / 從夫
Chinese characters
Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
從夫
Candidates by syllable
tòng
從
phu
夫
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
Similar
tòng sự / tòng quân / tòng học / tòng phạm …
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Similar
tòng sự / tòng quân / tòng học / tòng phạm …
Use
xuất giá tòng phu / công phu / đại trượng phu / bánh phu thê …
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Use
xuất giá tòng phu / công phu / đại trượng phu / bánh phu thê …