to face a thousand pointing fingers with a cool scowl (citation from Lu Xun); to treat with disdain; to defy
胡夫胡夫hu2 fu1
Khufu (pharaoh, reigned possibly 2590-2568 BC)
伙夫伙夫huo3 fu1
mess cook (old)
霍夫曼霍夫曼huo4 fu1 man4
Hofmann or Hoffman (name); August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892), German chemist; Dustin Hoffman (1937-), US film actor
加的夫加的夫jia1 de5 fu1
Cardiff
家庭主夫家庭主夫jia1 ting2 zhu3 fu1
househusband
家庭煮夫家庭煮夫jia1 ting2 zhu3 fu1
househusband
奸夫奸夫jian1 fu1
male adulterer
奸夫淫妇姦夫淫婦jian1 fu1 yin2 fu4
adulterous couple
脚夫腳夫jiao3 fu1
porter; bearer
轿夫轎夫jiao4 fu1
a porter for a palanquin; a carman
杰夫傑夫jie2 fu1
Jeff or Geoff (name)
杰夫·金尼傑夫·金尼jie2 fu1 - jin1 ni2
Jeff Kinney
姐夫姐夫jie3 fu5
(coll.) older sister's husband
鸠山由纪夫鳩山由紀夫jiu1 shan1 you2 ji4 fu1
Hatoyama Yukio (1947-), Japanese Democratic Party politician, prime minister 2009-2010
居礼夫人居禮夫人ju1 li3 fu1 ren5
Maria Skłodowska-Curie or Marie Curie (1867-1934), double Nobel prize-winner in Physics 1903 and Chemistry 1911
居里夫人居里夫人ju1 li3 fu1 ren5
see 居禮夫人|居礼夫人
卡夫卡夫ka3 fu1
Kraft, US food company
卡夫卡卡夫卡ka3 fu1 ka3
Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer
卡拉马佐夫兄弟卡拉馬佐夫兄弟ka3 la1 ma3 zuo3 fu1 xiong1 di4
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基
卡拉什尼科夫卡拉什尼科夫ka3 la1 shi2 ni2 ke1 fu1
Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle)
卡西莫夫卡西莫夫ka3 xi1 mo4 fu1
Kasimov (town in Russia)
凯夫拉凱夫拉kai3 fu1 la1
Kevlar
柯夫塔柯夫塔ke1 fu1 ta3
kofta
克拉夫丘克克拉夫丘克ke4 la1 fu1 qiu1 ke4
Leonid Kravchuk (1934-), first post-communist president of Ukraine 1991-1994
克拉科夫克拉科夫ke4 la1 ke1 fu1
Krakow
克利夫兰克利夫蘭ke4 li4 fu1 lan2
Cleveland
克利斯朵夫克利斯朵夫ke4 li4 si1 duo3 fu1
Christopher (name)
孔夫子孔夫子kong3 fu1 zi3
Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔子
库肯霍夫公园庫肯霍夫公園ku4 ken3 huo4 fu1 gong1 yuan2
Keukenhof, flower garden in Netherlands
旷夫曠夫kuang4 fu1
bachelor; unmarried man
拉尔夫拉爾夫la1 er3 fu1
Ralph (name)
拉夫拉夫la1 fu1
to force into service; press-gang
拉夫堡拉夫堡la1 fu1 bao3
Loughborough, English city
拉夫堡大学拉夫堡大學la1 fu1 bao3 da4 xue2
Loughborough University
拉夫罗夫拉夫羅夫la1 fu1 luo2 fu1
Lavrov (name); Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004
拉夫桑贾尼拉夫桑賈尼la1 fu1 sang1 jia3 ni2
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
拉赫曼尼诺夫拉赫曼尼諾夫la1 he4 man4 ni2 nuo4 fu1
Rachmaninoff or Rachmaninov (name); Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Russian composer and pianist
拉米夫定拉米夫定la1 mi3 fu1 ding4
Lamivudine, reverse transcriptase inhibitor marketed by GlaxoSmithKline and widely used in the treatment of hepatitis B and AIDS; brand names include Zeffix, Heptovir, Epivir and Epivir-HBV
拉兹莫夫斯基拉茲莫夫斯基la1 zi1 mo4 fu1 si1 ji1
Razumovsky (name); Prince Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky (1752-1836), Russian diplomat
勒维夫勒維夫le4 wei2 fu5
Lviv (Lvov), town in western Ukraine
李直夫李直夫li3 zhi2 fu1
Li Zhifu (c. 14th century), Yuan dynasty playwright in the 雜劇|杂剧 style
列别杰夫列別傑夫lie4 bie4 jie2 fu1
Lebedev or Lebedyev (Russian name)
列夫·托尔斯泰列夫·托爾斯泰lie4 fu1 - tuo1 er3 si1 tai4
Tolstoy (name); Count Lev Nikolayevich Tostoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰爭與和平|战争与和平
露水夫妻露水夫妻lu4 shui3 fu1 qi1
a couple in a short-lived, improper relationship
罗夫诺羅夫諾luo1 fu1 nuo4
Rivne (or Rovno), city in western Ukraine; Rivne (Oblast)
罗巴切夫斯基羅巴切夫斯基luo2 ba1 qie4 fu1 si1 ji1
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1793-1856), one of the discoverers of non-Euclidean geometry
罗蒙诺索夫羅蒙諾索夫luo2 meng2 nuo4 suo3 fu1
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian polymath and writer
罗摩诺索夫羅摩諾索夫luo2 mo2 nuo4 suo3 fu1
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765), famous Russian chemist and polymath
罗摩诺索夫山脊羅摩諾索夫山脊luo2 mo2 nuo4 suo3 fu1 shan1 ji3
Lomonosov ridge (in the Artic Ocean)
罗斯涅夫羅斯涅夫luo2 si1 nie4 fu1
Rosneft (Russian state oil company)
罗斯托夫羅斯托夫luo2 si1 tuo1 fu1
Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close to Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea)
马尔代夫馬爾代夫ma3 er3 dai4 fu1
the Maldives
马尔地夫馬爾地夫ma3 er3 di4 fu1
the Maldives (Tw)
马尔可夫过程馬爾可夫過程ma3 er3 ke3 fu1 guo4 cheng2
Markov process (mathematics)
马夫馬伕ma3 fu1
groom; stable lad; horsekeeper; pimp; procurer
马雅可夫斯基馬雅可夫斯基ma3 ya3 ke3 fu1 si1 ji1
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), Russian poet and dramatist
麦克白夫人麥克白夫人mai4 ke4 bai2 fu1 ren5
Lady Macbeth
梅德韦杰夫梅德韋傑夫mei2 de2 wei2 jie2 fu1
Medvedyev (name); Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, President of Russian Federation from 2008
妹夫妹夫mei4 fu5
younger sister's husband
门捷列夫門捷列夫men2 jie2 lie4 fu1
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian chemist who introduced the periodic table
蒙古大夫蒙古大夫meng3 gu3 dai4 fu5
(coll.) quack (doctor); charlatan
米夫米夫mi3 fu1
Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif (1901-1938), Ukrainian Soviet expert on Chinese affairs, secretly executed in Stalin's purges
If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle.; cf idiom 磨杵成針|磨杵成针, to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task; to study diligently
抓功夫抓功夫zhua1 gong1 fu5
to maximize one's time; to catch some time out; to find enough time; (also 抓工夫)
抓工夫抓工夫zhua1 gong1 fu5
to maximize one's time; to catch some time out; to find enough time; (also 抓功夫)