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(coll.) wife
HSK 4
witch / sorceress / female shaman
HSK 7-9
(coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother
HSK 7-9
Brahmanism / Hinduism
hot-water bottle
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(bound form) grandmother / (bound form) matron / (bound form) mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)
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
husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma
concubine / mistress / (dialect) woman
great-grandmother
granny / mother-in-law
mapo tofu / stir-fried beancurd in chili sauce
mother-in-law and daughter-in-law
(dialect) hen; prostitute / (Tw) (adjective) interfering; nosy; (noun) busybody (from Taiwanese 家婆, Tai-lo pr. [ke-pô])
Borneo island (of Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei)
effeminate / old-womanish / garrulous / fainthearted / overly careful / overly sensitive / maudlin
faded old woman
potion given to souls by the goddess Meng Po 孟婆 before they are reincarnated that makes them forget their previous existence
midwife (old term)
Shiva (Hindu deity)
henpecked / to be under one's wife's thumb
old woman (at times contemptuous)
husband's parents; parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple; husband and wife
to swirl about / (of leaves and branches) to sway
midwife
night-scented lily (Alocasia odora)
(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
Brahmin
old woman
(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
midwife
tomboy
husband's family (traditionally where the wife moves into)
earnest and well-meaning advice (idiom); to persuade patiently
grandfather's sister / sister of a woman's father-in-law
(literary) kindheartedness
women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)
Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)
aunt by marriage / husband's aunt / husband's father's younger brother's wife
matchmaker
midwife
primary wife
housewife (jocular) / female housekeeper of a higher rank (old) / busybody
(coll.) lying-in woman
Borobudur (in Java, Indonesia)
(dialect) wife / married woman
hot-water bottle
Mahābhārata, second great Indian epic after 羅摩衍那|罗摩衍那, possibly originally c. 4th century BC
meddling woman / nosy parker (Cantonese)
wealthy woman
woman (derog.)
(dialect) mother-in-law / (house)wife
both sides claim they're right (idiom)
tearful (idiom)
wife, kids and a warm bed (idiom) / the simple and good life
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 who induces labor
Champa, ancient Indochinese kingdom lasting from the 2nd to the 17th century, located in what is now central and southern Vietnam
to chase girls / to hang around with girls
every potter praises his own pot (idiom) / all one's geese are swans
Caucasian woman (Cantonese)


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