- 大丈夫【だいじょうぶ】 - safe, secure, sound, problem-free, without fear, all right, alright, OK, okay, certainly, surely, undoubtedly, no thanks, I'm good, that's alright, great man, fine figure of a man 
- 夫婦【ふうふ】 - married couple, husband and wife, man and wife 
- 夫人【ふじん】 - wife, Mrs, madam, wife of a nobleman (aristocrat, etc.), consort of the emperor 
- 大丈夫【だいじょうふ】 - great man, fine figure of a man 
- 夫妻【ふさい】 - husband and wife, married couple 
- 工夫【くふう】 - devising (a way), contriving, inventing, thinking up, figuring out, coming up with, working out, device, design, idea, plan, invention, dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation) 
- 丈夫【じょうぶ】 - healthy, robust, strong, solid, durable 
- 工夫【こうふ】 - labourer, laborer, workman 
- 亡夫【ぼうふ】 - deceased husband, late husband 
- 丈夫【じょうふ】 - hero, manly person, warrior 
- 義太夫【ぎだゆう】 - gidayū (type of reciting used in the puppet theater) 
- 老夫婦【ろうふうふ】 - old couple, elderly couple 
- 夫君【ふくん】 - (another's) husband 
- 漁夫の利【ぎょふのり】 - profiting while others fight, fisherman's profit 
- 一工夫【ひとくふう】 - contrivance, bit of fiddling, little ingenuity, bit more (e.g. food) 
- 農夫【のうふ】 - (male) farmer, peasant, farmhand 
- 夫唱婦随【ふしょうふずい】 - a wife should do her husband's bidding