漁夫

See also: 渔夫

Chinese

		fisherman; to fish	husband; man
trad. (漁夫)		漁	夫
simp. (渔夫)		渔	夫
alternative forms		魚夫／鱼夫

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yúfū

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ ㄈㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴ fu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yúfū
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ ㄈㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yúfu
    • Wade–Giles: yü²-fu¹
    • Yale: yú-fū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yufu
    • Palladius: юйфу (jujfu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y³⁵ fu⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyu⁴ fu¹
    • Yale: yùh fū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁴ fu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁴ fu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²¹ fuː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: ngjo pju

Rime
Character	漁	夫
Reading #	1/1	2/2
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	語居切	甫無切
Baxter	ngjo	pju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɨʌ/	/pɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋiɔ/	/pio/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋiɔ/	/pio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋɨə̆/	/puə̆/
Li Rong	/ŋiɔ/	/pio/
Wang Li	/ŋĭo/	/pĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋi̯wo/	/pi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yú	fū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu4	fu1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ŋ](r)a  p(r)a/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋa  pa/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	漁	夫
Reading #	1/1	1/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yú	fū
Middle Chinese	‹ ngjo ›	‹ pju ›
Old Chinese	/*[ŋ](r)a/	/*p(r)a/
English	to fish	man
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	漁	夫
Reading #	1/1	1/2
No.	15940	3274
Phonetic component	魚	夫
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	魚	跗
Old Chinese	/*ŋa/	/*pa/
Notes	魚分化字

Noun

漁夫

1. fisherman

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 漁民 (“fisher; fisherman”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		漁人, 漁夫, 漁翁 old
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		漁民, 漁人, 漁夫, 漁翁 old
Mandarin	Taiwan	漁民, 漁夫
	Guiyang	打魚子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	漁民, 打魚佬
	Hong Kong	漁民, 漁夫
	Dongguan	打魚佬
Hakka	Meixian	漁民
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	漁民
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	漁民
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	漁民
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	漁民
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	漁民
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	漁民
Southern Min	Xiamen	討海仔
	Kaohsiung	討掠的
	Yilan	討海的
	Changhua (Lukang)	掠魚的
	Taichung	討海的
	Taichung (Wuqi)	掠魚的
	Tainan	討掠的, 討海的
	Taitung	討海儂
	Hsinchu	討海的
	Penghu (Magong)	討海儂
	Manila (Hokkien)	掠魚儂, 討魚儂
	Shantou	漁民
Wu	Shanghai	捉魚個
	Suzhou	網船浪葛
	Wenzhou	打魚人

Derived terms

• 漁夫帽／渔夫帽 (yúfūmào)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (漁夫):

• → Japanese: 漁(ぎょ)夫(ふ) (gyofu)
• → Korean: 어부(漁夫) (eobu)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
漁	夫
ぎょ Grade: 4	ふ Grade: 4
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ぎょ​ふ [gyóꜜfù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɡʲo̞ɸɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

漁(ぎょ)夫(ふ) • (gyofu) 

1. fisherman

Synonyms

• 漁(りょう)師(し) (ryōshi)

Korean

Hanja in this term
漁	夫

Noun

漁夫 • (eobu) (hangeul 어부)

1. Hanja form^? of 어부 (“fisherman”).