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(coll.) wife
HSK 4
Borneo island (of Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei)
(coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother
HSK 7-9
husband's parents; parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple; husband and wife
wealthy woman
earnest and well-meaning advice (idiom); to persuade patiently
Caucasian woman (Cantonese)
primary wife
women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)
great-grandmother
both sides claim they're right (idiom)
henpecked / to be under one's wife's thumb
(literary) kindheartedness
mother-in-law and daughter-in-law
housewife (jocular) / female housekeeper of a higher rank (old) / busybody
(dialect) hen; prostitute / (Tw) (adjective) interfering; nosy; (noun) busybody (from Taiwanese 家婆, Tai-lo pr. [ke-pô])
mapo tofu / stir-fried beancurd in chili sauce
(dialect) cockroach
Brahmanism / Hinduism
witch / sorceress / female shaman
HSK 7-9
every potter praises his own pot (idiom) / all one's geese are swans
husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma
midwife
old woman
concubine / mistress / (dialect) woman
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(bound form) grandmother / (bound form) matron / (bound form) mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)
to swirl about / (of leaves and branches) to sway
(dialect) wife / married woman
wife, kids and a warm bed (idiom) / the simple and good life
aunt by marriage / husband's aunt / husband's father's younger brother's wife
hot-water bottle
Champa, ancient Indochinese kingdom lasting from the 2nd to the 17th century, located in what is now central and southern Vietnam
(dialect) mother-in-law / (house)wife
Mahābhārata, second great Indian epic after 羅摩衍那|罗摩衍那, possibly originally c. 4th century BC
matchmaker
old woman (at times contemptuous)
(strictly speaking) sister of one's maternal grandmother; (more broadly) grandaunt; sister of one's mother's mother or mother's father / (Tw) (old) husband's maternal aunt
effeminate / old-womanish / garrulous / fainthearted / overly careful / overly sensitive / maudlin
granny / mother-in-law
midwife who induces labor
meddling woman / nosy parker (Cantonese)
midwife
lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (idiom) / fig. it's not something you can avoid forever
midwife
grandfather's sister / sister of a woman's father-in-law
faded old woman
woman (derog.)
tearful (idiom)
hot-water bottle
husband's family (traditionally where the wife moves into)
Shiva (Hindu deity)
tomboy
midwife (old term)
night-scented lily (Alocasia odora)
(coll.) lying-in woman
(Beijing slang, 1960s–70s) to chat up girls; to flirt with unfamiliar girls
Brahmin
(Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess who gives a potion to souls before they are reincarnated, which makes them forget their previous life / (Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess of the wind
lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom) / fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor / what goes around comes around
Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)
potion given to souls by the goddess Meng Po 孟婆 before they are reincarnated that makes them forget their previous existence
Borobudur (in Java, Indonesia)


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