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HSK
old man or woman / the elderly / one's aged parents or grandparents
HSK 1
head of a household / family head / patriarch / parent or guardian of a child
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *亲* | 亲* | *亲
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
father and mother; parents
HSK 3
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
mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest
HSK 6
born of the same parents / sibling / fellow citizen / compatriot
HSK 6
to show filial respect / to give presents (to one's elders or superiors) / to support one's aged parents
HSK 7-9
affection / family love / love, esp. within a married couple or between parents and children
HSK 7-9
one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth) / biological (parents) / birth (parents)
HSK 7-9
filial / dutiful / devoted to one's parents (and grandparents etc) / to show filial piety towards (an older family member) / filial piety
HSK 7-9
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)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *亲* | 亲* | *亲
parents-in-law of one's offspring
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *宁* | 宁* | *宁
peaceful / to pacify / to visit (one's parents etc)
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *胞* | 胞* | *胞
placenta / womb / born of the same parents
parent (computing)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *岳* | 岳* | *岳
wife's parents and paternal uncles
parent and child / parent-child (relationship) / two successive generations
both parents
disobedient to parents
(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)
native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language
filial piety (a Confucian obligation) / respect and obedience to one's parents
people of one's parents' generation
step-parents
to cater to sb to make them happy (esp. of one's parents)
parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law / relatives by marriage
son-in-law living at wife's parent's house
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
main hall / honorific for one's parents (old)
mother and father / parents
to support one's parents in their old age / to show filial piety / to to repay / to return a favor
to supply / to provide for one's elders / to support one's parents
wife's parents' home
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 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)
single parent
to abandon (a child, elderly family member, pet etc) / (literary) (of one's parents) to pass away
to visit one's parents
to attend upon a dying parent or other senior family member; to handle the funeral affairs of a senior family member
husband's parents; parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple; husband and wife
splitcharactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *421* | 421* | *421
four grandparents, two parents and an only child
parent's generation / previous generation
(of children, parents etc) at one's side; living with one
to observe mourning for one's parents
(dialect) parents
to hasten home for the funeral of a parent or grandparent
backcrossing (i.e. hybridization with parent)
to go home for a visit; to return to one's parents' home to pay respects
parent material (e.g. the eroded rock making up sediment)
(literary) to be in mourning after the death of a parent
(honorific) your parent
(idiom) (literary) to become emaciated due to grief (usu. due to the death of a parent)
Your esteemed parent (honorific)
like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor
benevolent father, filial son (idiom) / natural love between parents and children
lit. an old ox licking its calf (idiom) / fig. (of parents) to dote on one's children
(coll.) to live with and depend on one's parents even upon reaching adulthood
to have lost both one's parents
(literary) unlike one's parents / degenerate / unworthy
parents (father and mother)
(science fiction) home planet / (astronomy) parent star
my son-in-law (humble) / I (spoken to parents-in-law)
to observe mourning for one's parents
(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
(children) run around parent's knees / fig. to stay to look after one's elderly 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
parent company
to pay careful attention to one's parents' funerary rites
"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
family vacation with an emphasis on activities for parents and children
"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
(idiom) parents' orders and matchmaker's services (in establishing an arranged marriage)
"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
parent-teacher conference / parents' association
to go into mourning for one's parents
parents
(of parents) to bring up children for the purpose of being looked after in old age
(coll.) adults still living with and depending on their parents
to remember one's parents / to feel homesick for one's relatives
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
older generation in one's household (often referring to one's parents) / one's deceased close relatives
to honor old people as we do our own aged parents, and care for other's children as one's own
to make a pledge to be married, without parents' approval
one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
(of a parent) to abandon one's family
adoptive parents
(honorific) your parents
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
lit. the solicitude of the crow (who provides for his old parent)(idiom) / fig. filial piety
scientific parenting
parent company / head office
(literary) to be in mourning after the death of a parent
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
in place of sb's parents / in loco parentis (law)
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 play the role of the strict parent (or superior etc)
single parent family

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