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HSK
children; sons and daughters
HSK 3
son
HSK 1
grandson / son's son
HSK 4
children; sons and daughters / a young man and a young woman (in love)
HSK 5
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  *準* | 準* | *準
accurate / standard / definitely / certainly / about to become (bride, son-in-law etc) / quasi- / para-
HSK 3
son's daughter / granddaughter
HSK 4
daughter's husband; son-in-law
HSK 7-9
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  *子* | 子* | *子
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
father and son
HSK 6
prince / son of a king
HSK 6
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  *兒* | 兒* | *兒
child / son
Liu Shan (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263 / Taiwan pr. [Liu2 Chan2]
son's son's wife; grandson's wife
daughter's son / grandson / descendant via the female line
adopted son
the return of a prodigal son (idiom)
bastard; son of a bitch
filial piety (Confucian virtue) / to be a good son or daughter
benevolent father, filial son (idiom) / natural love between parents and children
there are three ways to be unfilial; having no sons is the worst (from Mencius 孟子)
Ögedei Khan (1186-1242), a son of Genghis Khan
bastard; scumbag; son of a bitch
the only son of a family / (functional programming or philosophy) monad
Kim Jong-un (c. 1983-), third son of Kim Jong-il 金正日, supreme leader of North Korea from 2011
(idiom) (of a son) to carry on one's father's business or profession
King Cheng of Zhou (1055-1021 BC), reigned 1042-1021 BC as the 2nd king of Western Zhou 西周, son of King Wu of Zhou 周武王
filial son
the (rightful) emperor / "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation)
like father, like son (idiom)
Duke of Zhou (11th c. BC), son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王, played an important role as regent in founding the Western Zhou 西周, and is also known as the "God of Dreams"
son of man
sister's son / wife's sibling's son
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  *甥* | 甥* | *甥
(bound form) sister's son; nephew
Achim (son of Zadok in Matthew 1:14)
Bo Yikao, eldest son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王 and the elder brother of King Wu 周武王 who was the founder of the Zhou Dynasty 周朝 of ancient China
a prodigal son returned home is worth more than gold
the more sons, the more happiness (idiom)
senior male fellow student or apprentice / son (older than oneself) of one's teacher
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  *倩* | 倩* | *倩
pretty / winsome / to ask for sb's help / son-in-law (old)
the Three Su's (famous Song dynasty writers Su Xun 蘇洵|苏洵 and his sons Su Shi 蘇軾|苏轼 and Su Zhe 蘇轍|苏辙)
Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001) son of Fengtian clique warlord, then senior general for the Nationalists and subsequently for the People's Liberation Army
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  *潘* | 潘* | *潘
surname Pan / Pan, faun in Greek mythology, son of Hermes
(old) three generations (father, self and sons) / three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's)
heir / adopted son
the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend)
Abiud (son of Zerubbabel)
mother and son / interest and capital / combination of a large object and a smaller one of the same type
return of the prodigal son
paternal uncle's son; nephew
(literary) (humble) my son
Amon (son of Manasseh)
a son who is an only child
ideal son-in-law
your esteemed son (honorific)
son, esp. the eldest son, of the wife (contrasted with 庶子)
Ram (son of Hezron)
son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister)
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  *啟* | 啟* | *啟
Qi son of Yu the Great , reported founder of the Xia Dynasty 夏朝 (c. 2070-c. 1600 BC)
wealthy son-in-law / wealthy husband
a (real) man / boy / son
loafer; wastrel; prodigal son
son-in-law living at wife's parent's house
son orphaned of his mother
Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality , physical charm , propriety in speech and efficiency in needlework
Ahaz (son of Jotham)
pampered son of a wealthy family
father's brother's sons / paternal male cousin
young child / (humble) my son
Lafargue (name) / Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), French socialist and revolutionary activist, son-in-law of Karl Marx
son of a concubine or son of the wife other than her first
Cao Zhi (192-232), son of Cao Cao 曹操, noted poet and calligrapher
(old) brother's son or daughter / nephew
If the father is a hero, the son is a real man. If the father is a reactionary, the son is a bastard. (Cultural Revolution slogan) / fig. like father, like son
Kim Jong-nam (1971-2017), the eldest son of Kim Jong-il 金正日
(coll.) son of a bitch / bastard
Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记 / Son Goku, the main character in Dragon Ball 七龍珠|七龙珠
a son who is an only child
Holy Son / Jesus Christ / God the Son (in the Christian Trinity)
unfilial son
unfilial son / unworthy son / illegitimate son / concubine's son
three principles and five virtues (idiom) / the three rules (ruler guides subject, father guides son and husband guides wife) and five constant virtues of Confucianism (benevolence , righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom and fidelity )
Cupid, son of Venus and Mars, Roman god of love and beauty
adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
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  *婿* | 婿* | *婿
son-in-law / husband
Zerubbabel (son of Shealtiel)
illegitimate son
son of the boss / young master of the house / your son (honorific)
boss's son
great meal fit for dragon's son (idiom); sumptuous banquet
orphan / fatherless son
everyone has their likes and dislikes / there is no accounting for taste / chacun son goût
Isaac (son of Abraham)
brother's son; nephew
granddaughter (son's daughter)
my son-in-law (humble) / I (spoken to parents-in-law)
Cao Wei, the most powerful of the Three Kingdoms, established as a dynasty in 220 by Cao Pi 曹丕, son of Cao Cao, replaced by Jin dynasty in 265
Lee Hsien Loong (1952-), Singapore PAP politician, eldest son of Lee Kuan Yew 李光耀, prime minister from 2004
second son
noble and lowly / high versus low social hierarchy of ruler to people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism
Zerah (son of Judah in the Old Testament)

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