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