| 夫 | fū | husband; man; manual worker; conscripted laborer (old) |
| 夫人 | fū ren | lady; madam; Mrs.; CL:位 |
| 丈夫 | zhàng fu | husband; CL:个 |
| 南斯拉夫 | Nán sī lā fū | Yugoslavia, 1943-1992 |
| 大夫 | dài fu | doctor; minister of state (in pre-Han states); CL:个,位 |
| 夫妇 | fū fù | a (married) couple; husband and wife; CL:对 |
| 工夫 | gōng fu | time; spare time; skill; labor; effort |
| 工夫 | gōng fū | casual labor |
| 夫妻 | fū qī | man and wife |
| 功夫 | gōng fu | skill; art; kung fu; labor; effort |
| 夫子 | fū zǐ | Master; (old form of address for teachers, scholars); pedant |
| 赫鲁晓夫 | Hè lǔ xiǎo fu | Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretary-general of Soviet communist party 1953-1964 |
| 门捷列夫 | Mén jié liè fū | Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian chemist who introduced the periodic table |
| 士大夫 | shì dà fū | scholar officials |
| 勃列日涅夫 | Bó liè rì niè fū | Leonid Brezhnev |
| 农夫 | nóng fū | peasant; farmer |
| 车夫 | chē fū | cart driver; coachman |
| 姐夫 | jiě fu | (informal) older sister's husband |
| 车尔尼雪夫斯基 | Chē ěr ní xuě fū sī jī | Nikolai Chernyshevsky |
| 拉夫 | lā fū | to force into service; press-gang |
| 更夫 | gēng fū | night watchman (in former times) |
| 渔夫 | yú fū | fisherman |
| 罗斯托夫 | Luó sī tuō fū | Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close to Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea) |
| 船夫 | chuán fū | boatman |
| 匹夫 | pǐ fū | ordinary man; ignorant person; coarse fellow |
| 王夫之 | Wáng fū zhī | Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692), wide-ranging scholar of the Ming-Qing transition |
| 懦夫 | nuò fū | coward |
| 轿夫 | jiào fū | a porter for a palanquin; a carman |
| 夫权 | fū quán | authority over the household |
| 前夫 | qián fū | former husband |
| 妹夫 | mèi fu | younger sister's husband |
| 约瑟夫 | Yuē sè fū | Joseph (name) |
| 伏罗希洛夫 | Fú luó xī luò fū | Kliment Voroshilov (1881-1969), Soviet politician and military commander |
| 一夫一妻 | yī fū yī qī | lit. one husband one wife; monogamy |
一夫当关，
万夫莫开 | yī fū dāng guān ,
wàn fū mò kāi | If one man holds the pass, ten thousand cannot pass (idiom); One man can hold the pass against ten thousand enemies |
| 三岛由纪夫 | Sān dǎo Yóu jì fū | Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), Japanese author, pen name of (平冈公威, Hiraoka Kimitake) |
| 三轮车夫 | sān lún chē fū | pedicab driver |
| 下工夫 | xià gōng fu | to put in time and energy; to concentrate one's efforts |
| 人力车夫 | rén lì chē fū | rickshaw puller |
| 代尔夫特 | Dài ěr fū tè | Delft, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands |
| 何鲁晓夫 | Hé lǔ xiǎo fū | Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), secretary-general of Soviet communist party 1953-1964; also written 赫鲁晓夫 |
| 做功夫 | zuò gōng fu | to practice (work skills) |
| 做工夫 | zuò gōng fu | to practice (work skills) |
| 杰夫 | jié fū | Jeff or Geoff (name) |
| 杰夫・金尼 | Jié fū · Jīn ní | Jeff Kinney |
| 光禄大夫 | guāng lù dài fu | honorific title during Tang to Qing times, approx. "Glorious grand master" |
| 克利夫兰 | Kè lì fū lán | Cleveland |
| 克利斯朵夫 | Kè lì sī duǒ fū | Christopher (name) |
| 克拉夫丘克 | Kè lā fū qiū kè | Leonid Kravchuk (1934-), first post-communist president of Ukraine 1991-1994 |
| 克拉科夫 | Kè lā kē fū | Krakow |
