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children; sons and daughters
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *女* | 女* | *女
female / woman / daughter
HSK 1
daughter
HSK 1
son's daughter / granddaughter
HSK 4
children; sons and daughters / a young man and a young woman (in love)
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *寄* | 寄* | *寄
to entrust; to place in sb's care / (bound form) to depend on; to attach oneself to; to reside temporarily / (bound form) foster (as in 寄女 foster daughter) / to send by post; to mail
HSK 4
girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to have both a son and a daughter
lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (proverb) / fig. something unpleasant or embarrassing cannot be avoided forever; sooner or later one must face it
father and daughter
HSK 6
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  *嫁* | 嫁* | *嫁
(of a woman) to marry / to marry off a daughter / to shift (blame etc)
HSK 7-9
daughter-in-law / wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation
HSK 7-9
daughter's husband; son-in-law
HSK 7-9
(historical) term used by an emperor's son or daughter to address him
(coll.) youngest daughter
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *妻* | 妻* | *妻
to marry off (a daughter)
thousand jin (pounds) of gold / money and riches / (honorific) invaluable (support) / (honorific) daughter
daughter's son / grandson / descendant via the female line
parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law / relatives by marriage
eldest daughter of an affluent family / (polite) your daughter / bossy or indulged young woman / Miss High and Mighty
maiden; unmarried woman / (coll.) daughter
HSK 7-9
filial piety (Confucian virtue) / to be a good son or daughter
daughter's daughter / granddaughter
mother and daughter / mother-daughter
HSK 6
Park Geun-hye (1952-), Korean politician, daughter of former dictator Park Chung-Hee 朴正熙, president of Korea 2013-2017
adopted daughter
a daughter who is an only child
sister's daughter; niece
daughter-in-law
paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister) / (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter / (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I; me; this lady here / (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach
virtuoso piper wins a beauty / the xiao 簫|箫 (mouth organ) virtuoso 蕭史|萧史 won for his wife the beautiful daughter of Duke Mu of Qin 秦穆公
adopted daughter
mother-in-law and daughter-in-law
brother's daughter; niece
illegitimate daughter
child bride / girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law
son's daughter's husband / granddaughter's husband
adopted daughter (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
to marry off a daughter
(courteous) your daughter
senior female fellow student or apprentice / daughter (older than oneself) of one's teacher
mythological bird, reincarnation of drowned daughter Nüwa 女娃 of Fiery Emperor 炎帝
girl from a wealthy family / unmarried daughter of a noble house
brother's daughter's husband / niece's husband
lit. a pearl in the palm (idiom) / fig. beloved person (esp. daughter)
daughter-in-law
beautiful woman / fairy maiden attending the Daoist immortals / (polite) sb else's daughter / Chinese dodder (Cuscuta chinensis), plant whose seeds are used for TCM
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *囡* | 囡* | *囡
child / daughter
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
granddaughter (one's daughter's daughter)
sister's daughter / wife's sibling's daughter
granddaughter (son's daughter)
my daughter (humble)
pretty daughter in a humble family
junior female student or apprentice / daughter (younger than oneself) of one's teacher
second daughter
to get oneself a wife / to take a daughter-in-law
sister's daughter's husband
Bia, daughter of Pallas and Styx in Greek mythology, personification of violence
incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law
lit. to hope one's daughter becomes a phoenix (idiom) / fig. to hope one's daughter is a success in life
a daughter who is an only child
foster daughter
child bride / girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law
daughter cell
to make an offer of marriage (to another family on behalf of one's son or daughter) / to seek a marriage alliance
Pai Hsiao-yen (daughter of Pai Ping-ping)
eldest daughter
incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law / also written 扒灰
unprofitable goods; item that can only be sold at a loss / daughter (so called in former times because daughters required a dowry when they married)
to become engaged / to affiance (a daughter)
(idiom) a son or daughter; a child
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *媳* | 媳* | *媳
daughter-in-law
(old) brother's son or daughter / nephew
mythological daughter of Fiery Emperor 炎帝 who turned into bird Jingwei 精衛|精卫 after drowning
(coll.) daughter's son / grandson
father's brother's daughters / paternal female cousin
Nereids (Greek sea nymphs, fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris) / Nereid, moon of Neptune
(literary) to have a baby girl; to celebrate the birth of a daughter
lit. the emperor's daughter does not worry about whether she will be able to marry (idiom) / fig. highly sought after
daughter of a male cousin via female line
father's sister's daughters / maternal female cousin
noble lady / (honorific) your daughter
bride / (dialect) daughter-in-law
a gift of money given by parents on both sides after a wedding, to their new daughter-in-law or son-in-law


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