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  *跟* | 跟* | *跟
heel / to follow closely / to go with / (of a woman) to marry sb / with / compared with / to / towards / and (joining two nouns)
HSK 1
to marry; to get married
HSK 3
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  *归* | 归* | *归
to return / to go back to / to give back to / (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by / to belong to / to gather together / (used between two identical verbs) despite / to marry (of a woman) (old) / division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor
HSK 4
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  *嫁* | 嫁* | *嫁
(of a woman) to marry / to marry off a daughter / to shift (blame etc)
HSK 7-9
(coll.) "leftover man" – a man who remains single beyond the typical marrying age
to mate or marry / to match / matching / compatible
HSK 7-9
to pair up / to match up / to form a pair (e.g. to marry) / to mate / matched pair
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *妻* | 妻* | *妻
to marry off (a daughter)
(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)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *娶* | 娶* | *娶
to take a wife / to marry (a woman)
HSK 7-9
(coll.) "leftover woman" – a woman who remains single beyond the typical marrying age
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *婚* | 婚* | *婚
to marry / marriage / wedding / to take a wife
the rain will fall, the womenfolk will marry (idiom) / fig. the natural order of things / something you can't go against
(literary) (of a girl) to marry
(coll.) to try to improve one's social standing by marrying or affiliating with people of higher status
inhuman / (literary) an unworthy person (to appoint, to marry etc)
to marry
Jia Baoyu, male character in The Dream of Red Mansions, in love with his cousin Lin Daiyu 林黛玉 but obliged to marry Xue Baochai 薛寶釵|薛宝钗
to marry after getting pregnant
to marry and give birth late
to marry (of woman)
to pass through a doorway / (of a woman) to marry / orchestral music interlude in an opera
to marry
if you marry a chicken follow the chicken, if you marry a dog follow the dog (idiom)
(of a woman) to marry a non-local or foreigner
to marry off a daughter
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *媾* | 媾* | *媾
to marry / to copulate
(of a woman) to marry a man of lower social status / to marry down
(coll.) (usu. of women in former times) to marry for a second time / second marriage / person who remarries
remarried lady (contemptuous term) / lady who marries for a second time
(neologism, attested by 2009) wife of a gay man (the man may marry to conform with social expectations, and the woman often enters the marriage not knowing he is gay)
If you marry a chicken, follow the chicken (idiom); A woman should follow whatever her husband orders. / We must learn to accept the people around us.
to change one's tune / to modify one's previous remark / to change the way one addresses sb (as when one marries and starts to call one's husband's parents 爸爸 and 媽媽|妈妈)
to marry a man who lives in a distant place
splitcharactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *PU* | PU* | *PU
the degree of suspicion that a woman might, after she marries, cheat on her husband (abbr. for "paternity uncertainty")
trial marriage / to live together before deciding whether to marry
to become related by marriage / to marry
(of a girl) to marry (literary)
to give oneself wholly to / to put oneself at sb's service / (of a woman) to give one's body to / to marry
to marry too early
(said of a woman) to marry (old)
lit. a bunch of flowers poked into a pile of manure / fig. a terrible shame (as when a lovely woman marries an odious man)
people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom) / marriages are predestined / people marry because they share common traits
(of a slave or servant) to be given one's freedom / (of a prostitute) to marry and leave one's trade
to marry and live with the bride's family (inverting traditional Chinese expectations)
to marry / to tie the bridal veil
allowed to marry
(idiom) to marry because of an unplanned pregnancy
to marry for the first time / to be newly married
stepfamily / (old) stepmother / to marry
to obtain a certificate or license etc / (esp.) to obtain a marriage certificate; to marry
to marry / to tie the bridal veil
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *讨* | 讨* | *讨
to invite / to provoke / to demand or ask for / to send armed forces to suppress / to denounce or condemn / to marry (a woman) / to discuss or study
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
lit. the emperor's daughter does not worry about whether she will be able to marry (idiom) / fig. highly sought after
to marry after getting pregnant
length of married life / marriageable age / actual marrying age
(derog.) (slang) married woman (term used by some feminists to imply that by marrying, women make themselves subservient to the patriarchal order)
men fear getting into the wrong line of business, women fear marrying the wrong man (proverb)
(idiom) to be in a relationship with or marry a bad person / (idiom) to associate with a bad person


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