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  *办* | 办* | *办
to take care of (a matter); to deal with (a task, procedure etc); to organize (an event) / to establish; to set up; to manage; to run (an enterprise) / (law) to handle; to investigate; to prosecute (a case or suspect) / (bound form) office (as in 招辦|招办, admissions office) (abbr. for 辦公室|办公室)
HSK 2
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  *准* | 准* | *准
accurate / standard / definitely / certainly / about to become (bride, son-in-law etc) / quasi- / para-
HSK 3
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  *公* | 公* | *公
public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal)
HSK 6
daughter's husband; son-in-law
HSK 7-9
daughter-in-law / wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation
HSK 7-9
wife's mother, mother-in-law
HSK 7-9
wife's father, father-in-law
HSK 7-9
(coll.) older brother's wife; sister-in-law
HSK 7-9
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  *亲* | 亲* | *亲
parents-in-law of one's offspring
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  *倩* | 倩* | *倩
pretty / winsome / to ask for sb's help / son-in-law (old)
rivers and lakes / all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde / (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman)
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  *翁* | 翁* | *翁
elderly man / father / father-in-law / neck feathers of a bird (old)
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  *婆* | 婆* | *婆
(bound form) grandmother / (bound form) matron / (bound form) mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)
mother-in-law and daughter-in-law
to get oneself a wife / to take a daughter-in-law
husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma
employment benefits package mandated by labor laws in China, consisting of five insurances (pension, medical, unemployment, work injury, and maternity) and a housing fund
another case (in law) / a case to treat separately
wives of brothers; sisters-in-law
to counter accusations / to protest / to remonstrate / to retort / to plead / to demur / a plea (of not guilty) / a defense (against an allegation) / to enter a plea to a charge (in a law court)
emperor's son-in-law
to state in writing (laws, rules etc)
scientific law (e.g. law of conservation of energy) / (in human affairs) a generalization based on observation (e.g. "power corrupts")
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  *典* | 典* | *典
canon / law / standard work of scholarship / literary quotation or allusion / ceremony / to be in charge of / to mortgage or pawn
wife's mother; mother-in-law
(Han dynasty) official in command of an army responsible for maintaining law and order in the capital
(law) to amend a judgment; to commute / (in a contest or exam) to change the original decision or score
granny / mother-in-law
husband's younger brother / brother-in-law
younger brother's wife; sister-in-law
parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law / relatives by marriage
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  *婿* | 婿* | *婿
son-in-law / husband
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  *媳* | 媳* | *媳
daughter-in-law
son-in-law living at wife's parent's house
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  *嫂* | 嫂* | *嫂
(bound form) older brother's wife; sister-in-law
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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
to bend the law in order to favor one's relatives or associates (idiom)
father's youngest sister / husband's younger sister; sister-in-law
(coll.) wife's younger sister; sister-in-law (term not used to directly address her)
law court / hall (in castle) / CL:
brother-in-law / husband's younger brother
father-in-law (wife's father) and son-in-law
daughter-in-law
relation by marriage; in-laws
(coll.) husband's younger sister; sister-in-law
grandfather's sister / sister of a woman's father-in-law
bride / (dialect) daughter-in-law
husband's parents; parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple; husband and wife
wife's father (father-in-law) / old man
ideal son-in-law
to acknowledge sb as one's relative; to acknowledge kinship / (old) to visit new in-laws after a marriage
(old) grandfather / polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law / (Taiwanese) grandfather
child bride / girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law
the law / the law of the land / the law of a state (in former times) / criterion
older brother's wife / sister-in-law / (polite address to a younger married woman) sister
public trial (in a court of law)
wife's mother; mother-in-law
wife's younger sister / sister-in-law
father-in-law (wife's father)
husbands of sisters / brothers-in-law / extremely close (of a relationship)
with no regard for law or discipline (idiom); flouting the law and disregarding all rules / in complete disorder
to hear litigation (in a law court) / to hear a case
law enforcement and protection of the public (as provided in the PRC by local security committees 治保會|治保会)
(literary) mother-in-law / wife's mother
son-in-law
brother-in-law (younger sister's husband)
father's oldest sister / husband's older sister / sister-in-law
younger brother's wife / sister-in-law
(literary) father-in-law / wife's father
father's brother (uncle) / husband's brother (brother-in-law)
(coll.) father-in-law (wife's father)
Origin of Dharma (in Buddhism) / source of the law
my son-in-law (humble) / I (spoken to parents-in-law)
(polite) my sister-in-law
old man / husband's father / father-in-law / court eunuch
incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law
sisters-in-law (old) / various concubines of a husband (old)
examination of the evidence of the opposing party in a court of law
daughter-in-law
China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, with undergraduate campus at Changping 昌平, and graduate campus in Haidian district 海淀區|海淀区
(law) judgement defaulter (person who has failed to fulfill obligations set forth in a written court judgement, such as paying compensation to sb, despite having the means to do so) / debt dodger
wife's elder sister / sister-in-law
incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law / also written 扒灰
Lafargue (name) / Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), French socialist and revolutionary activist, son-in-law of Karl Marx
husband's father; father-in-law / grandpa; grandad / (old) form of address for a eunuch
coefficient of restitution (in Hooke's law)
wife's brother's wife, sister-in-law
mother's youngest sister / wife's younger sister; sister-in-law
witness (in a law suit)
Law on the National Emblem of the PRC, promulgated in 1991
unacceptable as uncorroborated evidence (in law or in textual criticism)
(dialect) mother-in-law / (house)wife
supercargo (in maritime law) / agent responsible for goods / an escort
Pirate Party, political movement whose main goal is to reform copyright law in line with the Internet era
snake plant aka mother-in-law's tongue (Dracaena trifasciata)
(law) person required to fulfill obligations set forth in a written court judgement (e.g. to pay compensation to sb)
Hong Kong Basic Law (in effect since the resumption of Chinese sovereignty in 1997)
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  *110* | 110* | *110
the emergency number for law enforcement in Mainland China and Taiwan
in place of sb's parents / in loco parentis (law)

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