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  *大* | 大* | *大
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
HSK 1
(coll.) father; dad / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
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  *考* | 考* | *考
to check / to verify / to test / to examine / to take an exam / to take an entrance exam for / deceased father
HSK 1
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  *爸* | 爸* | *爸
father / dad / pa / papa
HSK 1
father and mother; parents
HSK 3
father / also pr. [fu4 qin5] / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
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  *嚴* | 嚴* | *嚴
tight (closely sealed) / stern / strict / rigorous / severe / father
HSK 4
father's younger brother / uncle / Taiwan pr. [shu2 shu5] / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
(coll.) father's older brother / uncle / term of respect for older man
HSK 4
father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman)
HSK 4
identity; aspect of one's identity (e.g. mayor, father, permanent resident); role; capacity (as in "in his capacity as ..." + ... + 的身份); status (social, legal etc); position; rank
HSK 4
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  *公* | 公* | *公
public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal)
HSK 6
father and son
HSK 6
father's mother / paternal grandmother
HSK 6
father's father / paternal grandfather
HSK 6
father and daughter
HSK 6
father's elder brother / term of respect for older man / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
wife's father, father-in-law
HSK 7-9
(coll.) mother's father / maternal grandfather
HSK 7-9
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
father's elder brother / uncle
HSK 7-9
father / daddy / "I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt) / I (used arrogantly or jocularly)
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  *義* | 義* | *義
justice / righteousness / meaning / foster (father etc) / adopted / artificial (tooth, limb etc) / relationship / friendship
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  *翁* | 翁* | *翁
elderly man / father / father-in-law / neck feathers of a bird (old)
father or founder of a nation / Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen)
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  *伯* | 伯* | *伯
father's elder brother / senior / paternal elder uncle / eldest of brothers / respectful form of address / Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位
father's father's father / paternal great-grandfather
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  *父* | 父* | *父
father
husband's father; father-in-law / grandpa; grandad / (old) form of address for a eunuch
father; dad
old fellow / old man / father / husband
(old) grandfather / polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law / (Taiwanese) grandfather
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  *嬸* | 嬸* | *嬸
wife of father's younger brother
to rely on / father and mother (classical)
parents (father and mother)
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  *叔* | 叔* | *叔
uncle / father's younger brother / husband's younger brother / Taiwan pr. [shu2]
eldest of father's younger brothers / uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father)
(dialect) father / old man / sir
my (your etc) old father / polite appellation for an elderly male
(honorific) your father
father's oldest sister / husband's older sister / sister-in-law
honorific term for one's deceased father / (arch.) great-great-grandfather
(coll.) father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother / respectful form of address for an old woman
Father's Day
father (Catholic or Orthodox priest)
grandma (paternal) (Tw) / (dialect) mother / nurse / amah / (Manchu) father
adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
old man / husband's father / father-in-law / court eunuch
Franklin (name) / Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), US Founding Father, scientist and author
menfolk (collective term for men of different generations) / husbands and their fathers etc
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  *椿* | 椿* | *椿
Chinese toon (Toona sinensis) / tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima) / (literary metaphor) father
(coll.) father's younger brother's wife / aunt
Father Christmas; Santa Claus
foster father / adoptive father
biological father
(coll.) father-in-law (wife's father)
son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister)
six close relatives, namely: father , mother , older brothers , younger brothers , wife , male children / one's kin
elderly gentleman (respectful) / esteemed father
wife of father's younger brother / aunt
head of a family / (polite) my father / (polite) my grandfather / your esteemed father
adoptive father
title of respect for the queen mother or the emperor's father / nickname for Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后
father's maternal uncle / granduncle
(old) three generations (father, self and sons) / three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's)
maternal grandfather (i.e. mother's father)
(respectful for) one's grandfather / sb's father / older people / the head of the house (used by servants) / a district magistrate
father's brother's sons / paternal male cousin
great-grandfather / (old) grandfather / father
Emperor Yang of Sui (569-618), said to have murdered his father and brother to seize the throne, reigned 604-618
leading light / founding father / principal proponent
strict or stern father
lit. to acknowledge the bandit as one's father (idiom); fig. a complete betrayal / to sell oneself to the enemy
Zhou Youguang (1906-2017), PRC linguist, considered the father of Hanyu Pinyin 漢語拼音|汉语拼音
father's female cousin via female line
François Viète (1540-1603), French mathematician, father of modern algebraic notation
the death of one's father
King Wen of Zhou state (c. 1152-1056 BC), reigned c. 1099-1056 BC as king of Zhou state, leading figure in building the subsequent Western Zhou dynasty, father of King Wu of Zhou 周武王 the first Zhou dynasty king
maternal aunt / father's concubine (old)
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 )
benevolent father, filial son (idiom) / natural love between parents and children
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
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
(literary) father's friends (of the same generation)
husband's father and mother
wife of father's younger brother / aunt
leading light / founding father / principal proponent / also written 元勳|元勋
(archaic) (honorific) deceased father (esp. of an emperor)
to follow in one's father's footsteps
to be orphaned of one's father
(strictly speaking) sister of one's maternal grandmother; (more broadly) grandaunt; sister of one's mother's mother or mother's father / (Tw) (old) husband's maternal aunt
uncle (father's youngest brother)
father and elder brother(s) / head of the family / patriarch
like father, like son (idiom)
noble and lowly / high versus low social hierarchy of ruler to people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism
(term of respect) second only to father / like a father (to me)
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  *禰* | 禰* | *禰
memorial tablet in a temple commemorating a deceased father
nobody understands one's son better than his father (idiom)
father's younger brother / (sometimes used to refer to Confucius)
(coll.) father's father's father / paternal great-grandfather

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