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夫

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: hu1
POJ: hu
Variety: chaozhou
Peng'im: bou1
POJ: po͘
Variety: chaozhou

Meanings and usage

noun: husband, man; male adult
夫

2 candidate readings from Wiktionary — genuine Chaozhou colloquial form not yet confirmed by a speaker. A third candidate (hu7) was dropped because Wiktionary ties it specifically to 夫's Classical Chinese grammatical-particle senses (pronoun/topic marker), not the noun sense drafted here.

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