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父 (Kangxi radical 88, 父+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 金大 (CK), four-corner 8040₀, composition ⿱八乂(GHJTV) or ⿱八⿻乀丿(K))

1. Kangxi radical #88, ⽗.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/父
• 𠇑, 㕮, 𡵛, 㳇, 𣏤, 蚥, 𨊽, 䭸, 𫙉, 𩵹(𩽻), 𨚅, 𨾝, 𩾿
• 𠛈, 𫷁, 斧, 𭷕, 𤤎, 𤱇, 𧉊, 釜, 𬥐, 𨥏, 𮮕, 𫇫, 𢨰, 𠀱, 𤱀, 𩂎

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 690, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19721
• Dae Jaweon: page 1103, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2039, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7236

• 父 on Wikidata.Wikidata

Historical forms of the character 父
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – A hand holding a stone blade, referring to a man working with a stone axe.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *p/ba (“male; father”).

Regular development from Middle Chinese would lead to the labiodental fù in Mandarin, but the colloquial word resisted the sound changes and is now written as 爸 (bà), with the 巴 (bā) phonetic component added to it to indicate the unchanged bilabial initial.

父

1. father

   父親／父亲  ―  fùqīn  ―  (formal) father

   父母  ―  fùmǔ  ―  parents; father and mother

   父子  ―  fùzǐ  ―  father and son

   父女  ―  fùnǚ  ―  father and daughter

   父輩／父辈  ―  fùbèi  ―  one's father's generation

   家父  ―  jiāfù  ―  (humble) my father

   生父  ―  shēngfù  ―  biological father

   養父／养父  ―  yǎngfù  ―  adoptive father

   繼父／继父  ―  jìfù  ―  stepfather

   天父  ―  tiānfù  ―  (Christianity) Heavenly Father

   國父／国父  ―  guófù  ―  father of a nation; (specifically) Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen)

   雜交水稻之父／杂交水稻之父  ―  zájiāo shuǐdào zhī fù  ―  (specifically) Father of Hybrid Rice (Yuan Longping)

   Antonym: 母 (mǔ)

2. Used to address a male elder member of a family.

   祖父  ―  zǔfù  ―  paternal grandfather (one's father's father)

   伯父  ―  bófù  ―  paternal uncle (father's elder brother)

   叔父  ―  shūfù  ―  paternal uncle (father's younger brother)

   岳父  ―  yuèfù  ―  father-in-law (wife's father)

   舅父  ―  jiùfù  ―  maternal uncle (mother's brother)

   姨父  ―  yífù  ―  maternal uncle (husband of mother's sister)

   姑父  ―  gūfù  ―  paternal uncle (husband of father's sister)

   Antonym: 母 (mǔ)

父

1. (literary, respectful) old man; elderly man

   漁父／渔父  ―  yúfǔ  ―  old fisherman

   田父  ―  tiánfǔ  ―  old farmer

2. (literary) Alternative form of 甫 (“honorific suffix used after a man's name; courtesy name”)

   梁父山（梁甫山） [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Liángfǔshān (Liángfǔshān)

   Mount Liangfu (alternately, Mount Liangfu) (in Shandong, China)

3. a surname

• “父”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02471
• Ding, Fubao (丁福保) (1922), “父” in 佛學大辭典 .

Shinjitai	父
Kyūjitai	父󠄁 父+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
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(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: ぶ (bu)、ふ (fu, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: ほ (ho)
• Kun: ちち (chichi, 父, Jōyō)、てて (tete, 父)、とと (toto, 父)、ちゃん (chan, 父)、かそ (kaso, 父)
• Nanori: のり (nori)

From Old Japanese 父 (titi), from Proto-Japonic *titi.

Still in modern usage.

• (Tokyo) ちち (Odaka – )^[1][2]
• (Tokyo) ちち (Atamadaka – )^[1][2]
• IPA^(key):

父(ちち) • (chichi) 

1. father

   野比(のび)のび助(すけ)は、主(しゅ)人(じん)公(こう)のび太(た)の父(ちち)。

   Nobi Nobisuke wa, shujinkō Nobita no chichi.

   Nobi Nobisuke is the father of the protagonist Nobita.

   • 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 1, page 115:

     父(ちち)　爲(す)考(こう)、和(わ)名(めい)知(ち)々(ち)、日(に)本(ほん)紀(き)私(し)記(き)云(いう)加(カ)曾(ソ)

     chichi sukō, wamei chichi, Nihon Ki Shiki iu kaso

     Father: considered in Japanese as chichi; in the Nihon Shoki Shiki it is pronounced kaso

2. (by extension, figurative) a father figure (male initiator or founder of something)

   近(きん)代(だい)医(い)学(がく)の父(ちち)

   kindai igaku no chichi

   the father of modern medicine

3. (Christianity) God, the Holy Father

• This term conveys neither positive nor negative connotations. However, using it to describe someone the speaker knows personally is often considered lacking respect, where more polite forms like お父(とう)さん (otōsan) are preferred.
• This term is sometimes used in objective narrations, but for this purpose, 父(ちち)親(おや) (chichioya) is more common.

• (antonym(s) of “father”): 母(はは) (haha, “mother”)

Appears in the Utsubo Monogatari of roughly 970 CE.^[3]

Glossed as “I, chichi. Pay” (“same as chichi. Father”) in Nippo Jisho.^[4]

Shift from chichi.^[3][5]

Usage continued until at least the early 1700s.^[3]

• IPA^(key):

父(てて) • (tete) 

1. (archaic) one's own father

Appears in the Nippo Jisho of 1603.^[3]

Originally a shift from chichi or tete in baby talk, used by children to refer to their own father.

Still in modern usage.

• (Tokyo) とと (Atamadaka – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

父(とと) • (toto) 

1. (childish) one's own father: daddy

   Coordinate term: 母 (kaka)

2. (by later extension) a husband, master of the house

• 父(とう)さん (tōsan)
  • お父(とう)さん (otōsan)

/totosan/ → /totːɕan/ → /t͡ɕan/

Likely a contraction of 父さん (toto-san).

• (Tokyo) ちゃん (Atamadaka – )^[1][6]
• IPA^(key):

父(ちゃん) • (chan) 

1. (informal, possibly dialect) one's own father
2. (by later extension) the head or master of an establishment such as a teahouse, boathouse, etc.

The “father” and “uncle” affixes is from Middle Chinese 父 (MC bjuX).