Where does “夫” come from?

夫 (Chinese) comes from Proto-Sino-Tibetan pʷa — male, father, third-person pronoun.

Ancestry of “夫”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Sino-Tibetanpʷamale, father, third-person pronoun

Words derived from “夫”

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