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  *亲* | 亲* | *亲
parent / one's own (flesh and blood) / relative / related / marriage / bride / close / intimate / in person / first-hand / in favor of / pro- / to kiss / (Internet slang) dear
HSK 3
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  *准* | 准* | *准
accurate / standard / definitely / certainly / about to become (bride, son-in-law etc) / quasi- / para-
HSK 3
bride
HSK 4
newcomer; new recruit; fresh talent / newlywed, esp. new bride / newlywed couple; bride and groom / (paleoanthropology) later-period Homo sapiens
HSK 6
(of a groom) to fetch one's bride from her parents' home to escort her to the wedding ceremony / (fig.) to take as one's wife; to marry (a woman)
the bride's side (of a wedding) / of the bride's party
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  *赘* | 赘* | *赘
(bound form) superfluous / (bound form) (of a man) to move into the household of one's in-laws after marrying; (of the bride's parents) to have the groom join one's household
betrothal gift / bride price
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  *媵* | 媵* | *媵
maid escorting bride to new home / concubine
(of a child bride) to consummate marriage
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  *褵* | 褵* | *褵
bride's veil or kerchief
first return of bride to her parental home
marriage by capture / bride kidnapping
to invite the groom (who will live with the bride's family) / to take a wife by one's own choice
bride / (dialect) daughter-in-law
to marry and live with the bride's family (inverting traditional Chinese expectations)
child bride / girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law
formal exchange of cups of wine between bride and groom as traditional wedding ceremony
bride's family (in marriage)
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  *妁* | 妁* | *妁
(literary) matchmaker (on the bride's side)
to have the groom move into the bride's house after marriage
betrothal gift / bride-price
betrothal money (given to the bride's family)
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  *笲* | 笲* | *笲
osier basket of brides
betrothal gift / bride price
to enquire, according to custom, after the name and horoscope of intended bride / one of a set of six traditional marriage protocols (六禮|六礼), in which name as well as date and time of birth (for horoscope) are formally requested of the prospective bride's family
marriage by capture / bride kidnapping
(of a bride-to-be) to remove facial hair and trim hairline (old) / to carve a face
to pay bride-price (payment to the bride's family in former times)
to carry sb the way grooms carry brides across the threshold
to worship heaven and earth / ritual kneeling by bride and groom in a old-fashioned wedding ceremony / also called 拜堂
posthumous or ghost marriage (in which at least one of the bride and groom is dead)
lit. having given away a bride, to lose one's army on top of it (idiom) / fig. to suffer a double loss after trying to trick the enemy
wedding car / carriage for collecting the bride
attendant of the bride or bridegroom at a wedding
young married woman / mistress / (fig.) punching bag / (old) child bride
ritual kneeling to heaven and earth by bride and groom in a old-fashioned wedding ceremony / same as 拜天地
bride
child bride / girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law
(of the groom's family) to send a bridal sedan chair 花轎|花轿 to fetch the bride / to send a party to escort the bride to the groom's house
shower (for bride, baby etc)


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