獨夫

Chinese

		alone; independent; single alone; independent; single; sole; only	husband; man
trad. (獨夫)		獨	夫
simp. (独夫)		独	夫

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dúfū

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨˊ ㄈㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): duk⁶ fu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dúfū
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˊ ㄈㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dúfu
    • Wade–Giles: tu²-fu¹
    • Yale: dú-fū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dwufu
    • Palladius: дуфу (dufu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu³⁵ fu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: duk⁶ fu¹
    • Yale: duhk fū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: duk⁹ fu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dug⁶ fu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊk̚² fuː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: duwk pju

Rime
Character	獨	夫
Reading #	1/1	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	屋 (3)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	徒谷切	甫無切
Baxter	duwk	pju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duk̚/	/pɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/duk̚/	/pio/
Shao Rongfen	/duk̚/	/pio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəwk̚/	/puə̆/
Li Rong	/duk̚/	/pio/
Wang Li	/duk̚/	/pĭu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱuk̚/	/pi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dú	fū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	duk6	fu1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]ˤok  p(r)a/

  (Zhengzhang): /*doːɡ  pa/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	獨	夫
Reading #	1/1	1/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dú	fū
Middle Chinese	‹ duwk ›	‹ pju ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]ˁok/	/*p(r)a/
English	alone; only	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	獨	夫
Reading #	1/1	1/2
No.	11818	3274
Phonetic component	蜀	夫
Rime group	屋	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	獨	跗
Old Chinese	/*doːɡ/	/*pa/

Noun

獨夫

1. ruthless ruler who has lost the people's support; tyrant; autocrat
2. (literary) bachelor; widower

Derived terms

• 民賊獨夫／民贼独夫
• 獨夫民賊／独夫民贼 (dúfūmínzéi)