WordTaiwan frequency #19,427
士大夫
ㄕˋ ㄉㄚˋ ㄈㄨ
“traditional term for government officials and educated elite; scholar-official class; gentry”
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士
ㄕˋ
Bachelor; scholar or gentleman (historical); soldier or specialist worker; honorific term for men; a member of the lowest rank of nobility (historical).
大
ㄉㄚˋ
Big; large; great; vast; elder; eldest; important; profound; to a great extent; to emphasize; (dialect) father or uncle.
夫
ㄈㄨ
husband; man, adult male; worker, laborer; (classical) this, that; particle introducing an opinion or exclamatory final particle.
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Words sharing these characters
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- 大陸ㄉㄚˋ ㄌㄨˋmainland China (in Taiwan usage); continent; mainland (as opposed to islands or coastal areas).
- 大家ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧㄚeveryone; all people; a great expert or master; an influential or prominent family
- 大學ㄉㄚˋ ㄒㄩㄝˊuniversity; college; institution of higher education; the Great Learning, a Confucian classic; in ancient times, a school for adult education
- 人士ㄖㄣˊ ㄕˋperson; figure; public figure; a term for people in general; a personage
- 大概ㄉㄚˋ ㄍㄞˋroughly; approximately; about; probably; general idea; rough estimate
- 大量ㄉㄚˋ ㄌㄧㄤˋlarge quantity; great amount; bulk; numerous; generous; magnanimous; (Taiwan) big capacity for alcohol
- 夫人ㄈㄨ ㄖㄣˊa respectful term for a married woman; a wife; madam; Mrs.; historically, a noblewoman or consort
- 重大ㄓㄨㄥˋ ㄉㄚˋgreat; important; major; significant; of great consequence or seriousness
- 丈夫ㄓㄤˋ ㄈㄨhusband; a married woman's spouse; (archaic) a man of strong character or noble bearing.
- 擴大ㄎㄨㄛˋ ㄉㄚˋto expand; to enlarge; to broaden in scope; to scale up; to extend one's reach
- 大人ㄉㄚˋ ㄖㄣˊadult; grownup; a respectful title for elders, parents, or superiors; historically, a tribal chief in some northern peoples.
- 大型ㄉㄚˋ ㄒㄧㄥˊlarge; large-scale; of great size or scale; major; big