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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *做* | 做* | *做
to make; to produce / to write; to compose / to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc) / (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc) / (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for / to assume (an air or manner)
HSK 1
wife
HSK 4
matching / fitting in with / compatible with / to correspond / to fit / to conform to / rapport / to coordinate with / to act in concert with / to cooperate / to become man and wife / to combine parts of machine
HSK 3
father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman)
HSK 4
married woman / Mrs. / Madam / wife / CL: 個|个,
HSK 2
(coll.) wife
HSK 4
a (married) couple / husband and wife / CL: 對|对
HSK 4
to drop in / to visit / to lock a door / (of a shop) to close / to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family
HSK 4
husband and wife; married couple
HSK 4
(coll.) wife's older brother
primary wife (in contrast to concubine); legal wife
(coll.) wife's older brother
grandmother's brother's wife
(coll.) wife's brother
wife's mother, mother-in-law
HSK 7-9
wife and children
wife's mother; mother-in-law
wife's father, father-in-law
HSK 7-9
"wife cake" – a thin, flaky Cantonese pastry filled with sweetened winter melon (or other mild sweet fillings)
married woman; wife (as a social role)
wife of father's elder brother / aunt / (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *妻* | 妻* | *妻
(bound form) wife
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *岳* | 岳* | *岳
wife's parents and paternal uncles
lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom) / fig. a wife having an illicit lover
(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)
son's son's wife; grandson's wife
first wife
(coll.) father-in-law (wife's father)
Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David (according to the Hebrew Bible)
daughter-in-law / wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *娶* | 娶* | *娶
to take a wife / to marry (a woman)
HSK 7-9
(old) wife
younger sibling / younger brother's wife
to take a wife / to get married (man)
wife
husband's parents; parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple; husband and wife
husband and wife
HSK 7-9
ex-wife / late wife
(coll.) older brother's wife; sister-in-law
HSK 7-9
hole / opening / cut / gap / gash / my husband or wife / classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc) / precedent
HSK 7-9
mistress / second wife / lover
primary wife
to separate (married couple) / to live apart (of husband and wife, family members)
sister-in-law / wife's older sister
(of a wife) to return to her parental home / (fig.) to return to one's old place, job, school etc
to get oneself a wife / to take a daughter-in-law
(dialect) wife / (dialect) young married woman
husband and wife in youth, companions in old age
Song Qingling (1893-1981), second wife of Sun Yat-sen 孫中山|孙中山, influential political figure in China after Sun's death in 1925
Peng Liyuan (1962–), PRC folk music singer, wife of Xi Jinping 習近平|习近平
wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife
(dialect) form of address for one's wife / polite form of address for a woman
wife
mother's youngest sister / wife's younger sister; sister-in-law
wife's family (before marriage)
sister's son / wife's sibling's son
(coll.) father's older brother's wife / aunt (polite address)
wife and child
henpecked / to be under one's wife's thumb
one's late wife
wife of older male cousin via female line
to take a wife
wife's father (father-in-law) / old man
clever wife / ingenious housewife / Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
(old) three generations (father, self and sons) / three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's)
six close relatives, namely: father , mother , older brothers , younger brothers , wife , male children / one's kin
a good wife and loving mother
the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend)
family member / husband and wife
waistband of a skirt / (fig.) related to the wife or another female family member
(coll.) wife's older brother
(coll.) wife's younger sister; sister-in-law (term not used to directly address her)
primary wife (in contrast to concubine); legal wife
to repudiate one's wife
live-in son-in-law; husband living with the wife's family
aunt / wife of father's younger brother
older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman)
relatives of the wife (slightly pejorative)
older brother's wife / sister-in-law / (polite address to a younger married woman) sister
your wife (honorific)
husband and wife
wife (old)
(coll.) wife's younger brother
wife of younger male cousin via female line / younger cousins via female line
first wife
son, esp. the eldest son, of the wife (contrasted with 庶子)
son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister)
wife / family / (literary) residence
(of a wife) wise and kind / perfect in her traditional roles
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *儷* | 儷* | *儷
(bound form) paired; coupled / (bound form) husband and wife
(in literature and opera) a place to which a monarch banishes a wife or concubine who falls from favor / (fig.) the doghouse; a state of disfavor
son-in-law living at wife's parent's house
first wife
wife of father's elder brother (old)
(literary) husband and wife; married couple
man and wife fall out (idiom, from Book of Changes); marital strife
term of respect for a teacher's wife / sorceress
born of a concubine (rather than of the wife)
son of a concubine or son of the wife other than her first
the wife of 杞梁, a senior official of the state of Qi who died on a military expedition / (fig.) a widow

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