🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

父亲

Pronunciation / Transliteration: fùqin

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Father/ˈfɑː.ðər/
nounverbCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #145 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"我的父亲是一位老师。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A man in relation to his natural child or children.

    "He is a proud father of three wonderful children."
As verb
  1. 1

    To make someone pregnant; to be the biological father of a child.

    "He fathered his first child at the age of twenty-five."

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Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'fæder', tracing back to Proto-Germanic '*fadēr', which shares roots with the Proto-Indo-European '*pātēr' (father). The term has maintained its fundamental familial meaning across millennia while expanding into various figurative and honorific uses.

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