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father and mother; parents
HSK 3
old man or woman / the elderly / one's aged parents or grandparents
HSK 1
born of the same parents / sibling / fellow citizen / compatriot
HSK 6
splitcharactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *421* | 421* | *421
four grandparents, two parents and an only child
head of a household / family head / patriarch / parent or guardian of a child
HSK 2
maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *親* | 親* | *親
parent / one's own (flesh and blood) / relative / related / marriage / bride / close / intimate / in person / first-hand / in favor of / pro- / to kiss / (Internet slang) dear
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *省* | 省* | *省
(bound form) to scrutinize / (bound form) to reflect (on one's conduct) / (bound form) to come to realize / (bound form) to pay a visit (to one's parents or elders)
filial / dutiful / devoted to one's parents (and grandparents etc) / to show filial piety towards (an older family member) / filial piety
HSK 7-9
company-owned store; store directly operated by the parent company (as opposed to one run by a franchisee, agent or distributor)
lit. as if in mourning for one's parents (idiom) / fig. (often pejorative) inconsolable; distraught
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *寧* | 寧* | *寧
peaceful / to pacify / to visit (one's parents etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *岳* | 岳* | *岳
wife's parents and paternal uncles
(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)
to observe mourning for one's parents
mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest
HSK 6
parent company
affection / family love / love, esp. within a married couple or between parents and children
HSK 7-9
husband's parents; parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple; husband and wife
benevolent father, filial son (idiom) / natural love between parents and children
to show filial respect / to give presents (to one's elders or superiors) / to support one's aged parents
HSK 7-9
single parent
one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
(coll.) to live with and depend on one's parents even upon reaching adulthood
morning and evening visits to parents / cf 昏定晨省
to look after (elderly parents) / Taiwan pr. [feng4yang4]
single parent family
four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety to one's parents, respect to one's older brother, loyalty to one's monarch, faith to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality , physical charm , propriety in speech and efficiency in needlework
(of parents) to bring up children for the purpose of being looked after in old age
like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor
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
to go into mourning for one's parents
(dialect) parents
(literary) unlike one's parents / degenerate / unworthy
at the knee (in reference to children) / (salutation used in letters to parents or grandparents)
one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth) / biological (parents) / birth (parents)
HSK 7-9
(of children, parents etc) at one's side; living with one
one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
mother and father / parents
"matchmaking corner", a gathering in a park for parents who seek marriage partners for their adult children by connecting with other parents who put up posters displaying their unmarried child's details
"a slave to one's children", hard-working parents who would do everything to ensure their children's well-being, in disregard of their own needs
lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom) / fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children / sandwich generation
to honor old people as we do our own aged parents, and care for other's children as one's own
to supply / to provide for one's elders / to support one's parents
filial piety (a Confucian obligation) / respect and obedience to one's parents
a residential property located within the designated catchment area of a desirable school, often sought after by parents to secure school admission for their children
to support one's parents in their old age / to show filial piety / to to repay / to return a favor
family vacation with an emphasis on activities for parents and children
son-in-law living at wife's parent's house
parent material (e.g. the eroded rock making up sediment)
parent and child / parent-child (relationship) / two successive generations
to pay careful attention to one's parents' funerary rites
to go home for a visit; to return to one's parents' home to pay respects
"left-behind children", rural children whose parents have to make a living as migrant workers in distant urban areas, but cannot afford to keep the family with them
parent's generation / previous generation
older generation in one's household (often referring to one's parents) / one's deceased close relatives
person who is passed back and forth, with nobody willing to look after them (e.g. a child of divorced parents) / (esp.) patient who gets shuttled from hospital to hospital, each of which refuses to admit the patient for treatment
to live apart from parents (of married couple) / to achieve independence
(of a bird) to fledge / (fig.) (of a person) to outgrow the need to be submissive to one's parents, mentor etc; to break away from the people who have supported one up to now
to observe mourning for one's parents
parent-teacher conference / parents' association
my son-in-law (humble) / I (spoken to parents-in-law)
parents (father and mother)
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 live with one's parents, thus bringing them happiness (idiom)
adoptive parents
to hasten home for the funeral of a parent or grandparent
to cut flesh from one's thigh to nourish a sick parent (idiom) / filial thigh-cutting
generous care but a thrifty funeral / to look after one's parents generously, but not waste money on a lavish funeral
to cater to sb to make them happy (esp. of one's parents)
to be the parent of (a child)
in place of sb's parents / in loco parentis (law)
to make a pledge to be married, without parents' approval
parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law / relatives by marriage
to play the role of the strict parent (or superior etc)
parent (computing)
a gift of money given by parents on both sides after a wedding, to their new daughter-in-law or son-in-law
parent shell (of a cluster bomb)
native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language
parents
(of a parent) to abandon one's family
(literary) (of a married woman) to visit one's parents
(statistics) population / parent population
(coll.) adults still living with and depending on their parents
disobedient to parents
(zoology, medicine) mother's body / (chemistry etc) parent / matrix / (statistics) population / parent population
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
(literary) to be in mourning after the death of a parent
hedonistic son of rich parents
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *胞* | 胞* | *胞
placenta / womb / born of the same parents
lit. the solicitude of the crow (who provides for his old parent)(idiom) / fig. filial piety
(honorific) your parents
to look after one's aged parents and arrange proper burial after they die
Confucian moral injunctions of fidelity / piety to one's parents, respect to one's older brother, loyalty to one's monarch, faith to one's male friends
to have lost both one's parents
to visit one's parents
parent company / head office
(idiom) parents' orders and matchmaker's services (in establishing an arranged marriage)
(children) run around parent's knees / fig. to stay to look after one's elderly parents
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *親* | 親* | *親
parents-in-law of one's offspring

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