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| | to send / to mail / to entrust / to depend on / to attach oneself to / to live (in a house) / to lodge / foster (son etc) | HSK 4 |
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| | grandson / son's son | HSK 4 |
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| | prince / son of a king | HSK 5 |
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| | brother's son / nephew | HSK 6 |
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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 / sub- | |
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| | five constant virtues of Confucianism, namely: benevolence 仁, righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom 智 and fidelity 信 / five cardinal relationships of Confucianism (between ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, brothers, friends) / five phases of Chinese philosophy: water 水, fire 火, wood 木, metal 金, earth 土 | |
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| | the (rightful) emperor / "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation) | |
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| | child / son | |
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| | filial piety (Confucian virtue) / to be a good son or daughter | |
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| | daughter's husband; son-in-law | |
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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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| | bastard (insult) / son of a bitch | |
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| | beloved son | |
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| | superfluous / redundant / cumbersome / refers to a son-in-law living with wife's family | |
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| | adopted son / foster son | |
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| | parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law / relatives by marriage | |
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| | sister's son / nephew | |
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| | young child / (humble) my son | |
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| | (of a childless couple) to pray for a son / to try to have a child | |
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| | ferocious mythological animal, the fifth son of the dragon king / zoomorphic mask motif, found on Shang and Zhou ritual bronzes / gluttonous / sumptuous (banquet) | |
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| | children; sons and daughters / a young man and a young woman (in love) | |
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| | loafer; wastrel; prodigal son | |
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| | filial son | |
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| | senior male fellow student or apprentice / son (older than oneself) of one's teacher | |
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| | son born of a concubine | |
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| | the only son of a family / (functional programming or philosophy) monad | |
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| | daughter's son / grandson / descendant via the female line | |
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| | son's daughter / granddaughter | |
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| | Cao Pi (187-226), second son of Cao Cao 曹操, king then emperor of Cao Wei 曹魏 from 220, ruled as Emperor Wen 魏文帝, also a noted calligrapher | |
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| | Váli (son of Odin) | |
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| | the return of a prodigal son (idiom) | |
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| | son-in-law living at wife's parent's house | |
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| | boss's son / young master; young boss | |
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| | A-dou, nickname of Liu Shan 劉禪|刘禅 (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263 / (fig.) weak and inept person | |
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| | a (real) man / boy / son | |
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| | son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister) | |
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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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| | son, esp. the eldest son, of the wife (contrasted with 庶子) | |
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| | benevolent father, filial son (idiom) / natural love between parents and children | |
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| | Zerah (son of Judah) | |
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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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| | 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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| | puppy / my son (humble) | |
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| | eldest grandson / the eldest son of one's eldest son | |
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| | son's son's wife / grandson's wife | |
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| | surname Yao / 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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| | (old) brother's son or daughter / nephew | |
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| | father's brother's sons / paternal male cousin | |
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| | to make an offer of marriage (to another family on behalf of one's son or daughter) / to seek a marriage alliance | |
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| | Cao Zhi (192-232), son of Cao Cao 曹操, noted poet and calligrapher | |
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| | paternal uncle's son / nephew | |
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| | beloved son | |
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| | (coll.) bastard / son of a bitch | |
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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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| | a prodigal son returned home is worth more than gold | |
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| | son of an official / son of nobility / your son (honorific) | |
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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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| | pretty / winsome / to ask for sb's help / son-in-law (old) | |
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| | give birth to a son soon (propitiatory compliment to newlyweds) | |
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| | father and son | |
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| | your son (honorific) | |
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| | Judas / Judah (son of Jacob) | |
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| | Ram (son of Hezron) | |
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| | noble and lowly / high versus low social hierarchy of ruler to people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism | |
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| | adoption (e.g. of a nephew as a son) / to inherit | |
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| | only son | |
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| | unfilial son / unworthy son / illegitimate son / concubine's son | |
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| | hybrid / mixed breed / bastard / son of a bitch | |
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| | father-in-law (wife's father) and son-in-law | |
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| | adopted son | |
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| | son of man | |
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| | pampered son of a wealthy family | |
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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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| | each sticks to his own opinion (idiom); chacun son gout | |
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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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| | Liu Shan (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263 / Taiwan pr. [Liu2 Chan2] | |
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| | only son | |
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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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| | adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) | |
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| | adopted son | |
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| | eldest son | |
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| | second son | |
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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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| | Obed (son of Boaz and Ruth) | |
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| | illustrious hero, spirit of the place (idiom); a place derives reflected glory from an illustrious son | |
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| | son born of a concubine / disaster / sin / evil | |
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| | (coll.) daughter's son / grandson | |
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| | nobody understands one's son better than his father (idiom) | |
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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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| | 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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| | orphan / fatherless son | |
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| | Tolui (1193-1232), fourth son of Genghis Khan | |
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| | sister's son / wife's sibling's son | |
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| | wealthy son-in-law / wealthy husband | |
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| | surname Pan / Pan, faun in Greek mythology, son of Hermes | |
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| | emperor's son-in-law | |
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| | son / heir | |
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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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