父

父 (radical 88, 父+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 金大 (CK), four-corner 8040₀, composition ⿱八乂)

1. Kangxi radical #88, ⽗.

• Index:Chinese radical/父

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• KangXi: page 690, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19721
• Dae Jaweon: page 1103, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2039, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7236

Historical forms of the character 父
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – A hand holding a stone, referring to a man working with a stone axe.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *p/ba (“male; father”).

Regular development from Middle Chinese would lead to the labiodental fù in Mandarin, but the colloquial word resisted the sound changes and is now written as 爸 (bà), with the 巴 (bā) phonetic component added to it to indicate the unchanged bilabial initial.

父

1. father

   父親 / 父亲  ―  fùqīn  ―  [formal] father

   父母  ―  fùmǔ  ―  parents; father and mother

   父子  ―  fùzǐ  ―  father and son

   父女  ―  fùnǚ  ―  father and daughter

   父輩 / 父辈  ―  fùbèi  ―  one's father's generation

   家父  ―  jiāfù  ―  [humble] my father

   生父  ―  shēngfù  ―  biological father

   養父 / 养父  ―  yǎngfù  ―  adoptive father

   繼父 / 继父  ―  jìfù  ―  stepfather

   天父  ―  tiānfù  ―  [Christianity] Heavenly Father

   國父 / 国父  ―  guófù  ―  father of a nation; [specifically] Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen)

   雜交水稻之父 / 杂交水稻之父  ―  zájiāo shuǐdào zhī fù  ―  Father of Hybrid Rice

2. Used to address a male elder member of a family.

   祖父  ―  zǔfù  ―  parental grandfather (one's father's father)

   伯父  ―  bófù  ―  paternal uncle (father's elder brother)

   叔父  ―  shūfù  ―  uncle (father's younger brother)

   岳父  ―  yuèfù  ―  father-in-law (wife's father)

   舅父  ―  jiùfù  ―  maternal uncle (mother's brother)

   姨父  ―  yífù  ―  maternal uncle (husband of mother's sister)

   姑父  ―  gūfù  ―  paternal uncle (husband of father's sister)

父

1. (literary, respectful) old man; elderly man

   漁父 / 渔父  ―  yúfǔ  ―  old fisherman

   田父  ―  tiánfǔ  ―  old farmer

2. (literary) Alternative form of 甫 (fǔ, “honorific suffix used after a man's name; courtesy name”).

   梁父山（梁甫山）  ―  Liángfǔshān (Liángfǔshān)  ―  Mount Liangfu (alternately, Mount Liangfu) (in Shandong, China)

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. father

• Go-on: ぶ (bu); ふ (fu, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: ほ (ho)
• Kun: ちち (chichi, 父, Jōyō); とう (tō); とと (toto)

• 母

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ちち​ [chìchíꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1][2]
  • (Tokyo) ち​ち [chíꜜchì] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [t͡ɕi̥t͡ɕi]

父 (hiragana ちち, rōmaji chichi)

1. father
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 20, poem 4402)

     知波夜布留 賀美乃美佐賀尓 奴佐麻都里 伊波布伊能知波 意毛知々我多米

   • 931–938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 1, page 115:

     父爲考、和名知々、日本紀私記云加曾

From chichi. Eastern dialect.

父 (hiragana しし, rōmaji shishi)

1. father
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 20, poem 4376)

     多妣由岐尓 由久等之良受弖 阿母志々尓 己等麻乎佐受弖 伊麻叙久夜之気

   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 20, poem 4378)

     都久比夜波 須具波由気等毛 阿母志々可 多麻乃須我多波 和須例西奈布母

From chichi.

父 (hiragana てて, rōmaji tete)

1. father
   • 1603–1604, Nippo Jisho (page 649)

     Tete. l, chichi. テテ. まはは, チチ (てて. または, 父) 父親.

From chichi.

父 (hiragana とと, rōmaji toto)

1. a childish term for one's father; daddy
   • 1603–1604, Nippo Jisho (page 670)

     Toto. トト (とと) 父. これは子どもの使う語である.

/kaso2/: *[kasə] > [kaso].

父 (hiragana かそ, rōmaji kaso)

1. father
   • 931–938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 1, page 115:

     父爲考、和名知々、日本紀私記云加曾

From kaso. Medial -s- voices to /kazo/.

父 (hiragana かぞ, rōmaji kazo)

1. father

• Doi, Tadao (1603–1604) Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1980, →ISBN.
• Minamoto, Shitagō; Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938) Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, published 1968, →ISBN.
• Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada; Rikio Kudō; Masao Ōtani; Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 4: Man’yōshū 4 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 2003, →ISBN.

父 • (bu, bo)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 부, 보 (revised: bu, bo, McCune–Reischauer: pu, po, Yale: pu, po)
  • Name (hangeul): 아비, 자 (revised: abi, ja, McCune–Reischauer: abi, cha, Yale: api, ca)

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父 (phụ, bố)

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