父（ちち）
JLPT N5 · noun
Pitch accent: odaka (tail-high) — high to the end, drops on a following particle (accent on mora 2)
Meaning: father (my)
Example sentences
- 父は毎朝、とても早く起きる。 — My father gets up very early every morning.
- 父は銀行で働いている。 — My father works at a bank.
Idioms & proverbs containing “父”
- 地震雷火事親父 (じしんかみなりかじおやじ) — things to fear: earthquakes, thunder, fires and, most of all, fathers
- この父にしてこの子あり (このちちにしてこのこあり) — like father, like son
- 君父の讐は倶に天を戴かず (くんぷのあだはともにてんをいただかず) — not wanting to live in the same world as one's father's or lord's enemies; being prepared to sacrifice one's life to avenge one's father or lord
- 父母の恩は山よりも高く海よりも深し (ふぼのおんはやまよりもたかくうみよりもふかし) — our debt to our parents is higher than the mountain and deeper than the sea
- 身体髪膚これを父母に受くあえて毀傷せざるは孝の始めなり (しんたいはっぷこれをふぼにうくあえてきしょうせざるはこうのはじめなり) — filial piety begins with not harming one's own body (as one's entire body was given by one's parents)
- 父子相伝 (ふしそうでん) — transmission of the secrets of an art, craft, trade or learning from father to son
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See it used in real works
- Example sentences from Japanese novels & web fiction (Massif)
- Hear “父” pronounced in real videos (YouGlish)