Dictionary content from CC-CEDICT De keizer is ver weg - boek met wilde avonturen in China


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wife / CL: 個|个
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  *妻* | 妻* | *妻
wife
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  *妻* | 妻* | *妻
to marry off (a daughter)
husband and wife; married couple
wife and children
lovely wife
ex-wife / late wife
bacterial tracheitis (inflammation of the windpipe, often caused by Staphylococcus aureus) / henpecked (a pun on 妻子管得嚴|妻子管得严 used in comic theater)
wives and concubines (of a polygamous man) / harem
fiancée
a good wife and loving mother
to be bereaved of one's wife
to repudiate one's wife
first wife
six close relatives, namely: father , mother , older brothers , younger brothers , wife , male children / one's kin
wife and child
chaff, husks, distillers' dregs etc (food eaten by the poor) / (fig.) rubbish / junk / (abbr. for 糟糠妻) wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband
similarity in features of an old couple / common facial traits that show predestination to be married together
wife
married woman; wife (as a social role)
henpecked male
a family wrenched apart (idiom)
to take a wife / to get married (man)
a couple in a short-lived, improper relationship
family-run shop
wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband
man and wife fall out (idiom, from Book of Changes); marital strife
to bestow a title on the wife of a deserving official and make his son heir to his titles
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  *孨* | 孨* | *孨
(Internet slang) the three 's that symbolize success in life: a house, a car and a wife (房子, 車子|车子 and 妻子) / (archaic) cautious / cowardly
monogamy
(old) perfect wife / you, my beloved wife
(neologism c. 2009) wife of a gay man (the man may marry to conform with social expectations, and the woman often enters the marriage not knowing he is gay)
lit. one husband one wife / monogamy
polygamy
weekend spouse / relationship involving a sugar-daddy
polygamy
popular Sichuan cold dish made of thinly sliced beef and beef offal
favor the concubine and do away with the wife (idiom) / spoil one's mistress and neglect one's wife
husband and wife in youth, companions in old age
wife swapping
you should not covet your friend's wife (idiom)
not yet married / bachelor
widow / the deceased's widow
to abandon wife and children
an ugly wife is a treasure at home (idiom)
to use one's power and influence to take another man's wife for oneself


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