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| | children; sons and daughters | HSK 3 |
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| | accurate / standard / definitely / certainly / about to become (bride, son-in-law etc) / quasi- / para- | HSK 3 |
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| | son's daughter / granddaughter | HSK 4 |
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| | grandson / son's son | HSK 4 |
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| | children; sons and daughters / a young man and a young woman (in love) | HSK 5 |
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| | prince / son of a king | HSK 6 |
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| | father and son | HSK 6 |
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| | daughter's husband; son-in-law | HSK 7-9 |
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| | bastard (insult) / son of a bitch | |
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| | loafer; wastrel; prodigal son | |
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| | Qi son of Yu the Great 禹, reported founder of the Xia Dynasty 夏朝 (c. 2070-c. 1600 BC) | |
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| | son born of a concubine | |
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| | pretty / winsome / to ask for sb's help / son-in-law (old) | |
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| | young child / (humble) my son | |
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| | child / son | |
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| | Chiang Ching-kuo (1910-1988), son of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石, Guomindang politician, president of ROC 1978-1988 | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | surname Pan / Pan, faun in Greek mythology, son of Hermes | |
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| | surname Yao / Yao or Tang Yao (c. 2200 BC), one of the Five legendary Emperors 五帝, second son of Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾 | |
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| | paternal uncle's son; nephew | |
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| | (coll.) bastard / son of a bitch | |
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| | the (rightful) emperor / "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation) | |
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| | a prodigal son returned home is worth more than gold | |
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| | senior male fellow student or apprentice / son (older than oneself) of one's teacher | |
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| | son-in-law / husband | |
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| | son of an official / son of nobility / your son (honorific) | |
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| | adoption (e.g. of a nephew as a son) / to inherit | |
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| | a (real) man / boy / son | |
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| | son born of a concubine / disaster / sin / evil | |
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| | the only son of a family / (functional programming or philosophy) monad | |
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| | son-in-law living at wife's parent's house | |
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| | pampered son of a wealthy family | |
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| | adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) | |
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| | puppy / my son (humble) | |
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| | to bestow a title on the wife of a deserving official and make his son heir to his titles | |
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| | a son who is an only child | |
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| | beloved son | |
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| | son of a bitch / bastard | |
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| | (of a childless couple) to pray for a son / to try to have a child | |
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| | eldest grandson / the eldest son of one's eldest son | |
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| | illegitimate son | |
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| | brother's son; nephew | |
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| | eldest son | |
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| | 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- | |
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| | boss's son / young master; young boss | |
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| | 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" | |
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| | a son who is an only child | |
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| | son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister) | |
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| | (literary) to have no descendants; to have no son to continue one's lineage | |
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| | sister's son / wife's sibling's son | |
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| | Judas / Judah (son of Jacob) | |
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| | second son | |
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| | unfilial son | |
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| | (old) three generations (father, self and sons) / three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's) | |
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| | parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law / relatives by marriage | |
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| | son's son's wife; grandson's wife | |
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| | son of man | |
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| | Tolui (1193-1232), fourth son of Genghis Khan | |
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| | hybrid / mixed breed / bastard / son of a bitch | |
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| | Hong Taiji (1592-1643), eighth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤|努尔哈赤, reigned 1626-1636 as Second Khan of Later Jin dynasty 後金|后金, then founded the Qing dynasty 大清 and reigned 1636-1643 as Emperor / posthumous name 清太宗 | |
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| | Zerah (son of Judah in the Old Testament) | |
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| | father's brother's sons / paternal male cousin | |
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| | Liu Shan (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263 / Taiwan pr. [Liu2 Chan2] | |
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| | illustrious hero, spirit of the place (idiom); a place derives reflected glory from an illustrious son | |
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| | give birth to a son soon (propitiatory compliment to newlyweds) | |
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| | son / heir | |
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| | each sticks to his own opinion (idiom); chacun son gout | |
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| | beloved son | |
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| | my son-in-law (humble) / I (spoken to parents-in-law) | |
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| | son of a bitch / damn bastard | |
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| | son of a bitch | |
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| | (coll.) puppy / (derog.) son of a bitch | |
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| | your son (honorific) | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | lit. the dragon has nine sons (idiom); fig. all kinds of characters / good and bad intermingled / It takes all sorts to make a world. | |
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| | son-in-law | |
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| | Jesse (son of Obed) | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | adopted son | |
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| | 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 仁, righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom 智 and fidelity 信) | |
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| | benevolent father, filial son (idiom) / natural love between parents and children | |
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| | Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | lit. father a lion, son cannot be a dog (honorific); With a distinguished father such as you, the son is sure to do well. / like father, like son | |
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| | Grand Prince Yixin (1833-1898), sixth son of Emperor Daoguang, prominent politician, diplomat and modernizer in late Qing | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | (coll.) daughter's son / grandson | |
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| | emperor's son-in-law | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Yao or Tang Yao (c. 2200 BC), one of Five Legendary Emperors 五帝, second son of Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾 | |
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| | like father, like son (idiom) | |
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| | Ram (son of Hezron) | |
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| | filial piety (Confucian virtue) / to be a good son or daughter | |
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| | to add a son to the family | |
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| | the return of a prodigal son (idiom) | |
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| | lit. to hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom); fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life / to have great hopes for one's offspring / to give one's child the best education as a career investment | |
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| | nobody understands one's son better than his father (idiom) | |
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| | Váli (son of Odin) | |
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| | ideal son-in-law | |
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| | Dorgon (1612-1651), fourteenth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤|努尔哈赤, successful general, instrumental in Manchu conquest of China, ruled China as regent 1644-1650 for his nephew Emperor Shunzhi 順治帝|顺治帝 | |
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