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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
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
splitcharactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *421* | 421* | *421
four grandparents, two parents and an only child
filial / dutiful / devoted to one's parents (and grandparents etc) / to show filial piety towards (an older family member) / filial piety
HSK 7-9
(computing) parent directory
lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (proverb) / fig. something unpleasant or embarrassing cannot be avoided forever; sooner or later one must face it
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
one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth) / biological (parents) / birth (parents)
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)
(Tw) (of a teacher or parent volunteer) to perform student safety duty, guiding students and maintaining traffic order during arrival and dismissal
company-owned store; store directly operated by the parent company (as opposed to one run by a franchisee, agent or distributor)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *岳* | 岳* | *岳
wife's parents and paternal uncles
step-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)
affection / family love / love, esp. within a married couple or between parents and children
HSK 7-9
to observe mourning for one's parents
elder brother born to the same parents
mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest
HSK 6
younger sister born to the same parents
elder sister born to the same parents
younger brother born to the same parents
(of parents) to bring up children for the purpose of being looked after in old age
both parents
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *宁* | 宁* | *宁
peaceful / to pacify / to visit (one's parents etc)
parent company
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *父* | 父* | *父
(bound form) father / (bound form) male relative of father's generation (as in 伯父) / (computing) (bound form) parent-
parents
parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law / relatives by marriage
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
to look after (elderly parents) / Taiwan pr. [feng4yang4]
parent and child / parent-child (relationship) / two successive generations
(coll.) to live with and depend on one's parents even upon reaching adulthood
"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
morning and evening visits to parents / cf 昏定晨省
family vacation with an emphasis on activities for parents and children
parent company / head office
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *亲* | 亲* | *亲
parents-in-law of one's offspring
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
to visit one's parents
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
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 go into mourning for one's parents
(dialect) parents
single parent
(literary) unlike one's parents / degenerate / unworthy
at the knee (in reference to children) / (salutation used in letters to parents or grandparents)
(computing) (attributive) parent (in a hierarchy)
native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language
(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
to look after one's aged parents and arrange proper burial after they die
"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 play the role of the strict parent (or superior etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *弑* | 弑* | *弑
to murder a superior / to murder one's parent
to make a pledge to be married, without parents' approval
to honor old people as we do our own aged parents, and care for other's children as one's own
(idiom) hedonistic son of rich parents
(children) run around parent's knees / fig. to stay to look after one's elderly parents
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
people of one's parents' generation
to support one's parents in their old age / to show filial piety / to to repay / to return a favor
parent's generation / previous generation
to hasten home for the funeral of a parent or grandparent
to go home for a visit; to return to one's parents' home to pay respects
Your esteemed parent (honorific)
single parent family
to pay careful attention to one's parents' funerary rites
to cater to sb to make them happy (esp. of one's parents)
to have lost both one's parents
to neglect one's parents but give them a rich funeral / hypocrisy in arranging a lavish funeral after treating one's parents meanly
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
(law) elder relatives; relatives of a senior generation such as parents, uncles or grandparents
to abandon (a child, elderly family member, pet etc) / (literary) (of one's parents) to pass away
(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
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 kill a pig as a lesson to the children (idiom); parents must teach by example
to live with one's parents, thus bringing them happiness (idiom)
one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
to be the parent of (a child)
in place of sb's parents / in loco parentis (law)
children born to parents from rural areas who have migrated to urban areas
(zoology, medicine) mother's body / (chemistry etc) parent / matrix / (statistics) population / parent population
proto-language / parent language (linguistics)
lit. an old ox licking its calf (idiom) / fig. (of parents) to dote on one's children
(coll.) adults still living with and depending on their parents
disobedient to parents
(of a parent) to abandon one's family
adoptive parents

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