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father / also pr. [fu4 qin5] / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *亲* | 亲* | *亲
parent / one's own (flesh and blood) / relative / related / marriage / bride / close / intimate / in person / first-hand / in favor of / pro- / to kiss / (Internet slang) dear
HSK 3
mother / also pr. [mu3 qin5] / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home
HSK 7-9
to go home to visit one's family
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *亲* | 亲* | *亲
parents-in-law of one's offspring
blind date / arranged interview to evaluate a proposed marriage partner (Taiwan pr. [xiang4 qin1]) / to be deeply attached to each other
both parents
one's capable and virtuous relatives
dear one / to kiss / friendly
to propose marriage
kin / blood relation
next of kin / closely related
six close relatives, namely: father , mother , older brothers , younger brothers , wife , male children / one's kin
kindly / nice / amiable
close relative / near relation
affable / genial
to take a wife
cousin (via female line)
to settle a marriage / betrothal
relation by marriage; in-laws
to get married
marriage by capture / bride kidnapping
to invite the groom (who will live with the bride's family) / to take a wife by one's own choice
single parent
to visit one's parents
to marry
to acknowledge sb as one's relative; to acknowledge kinship / (old) to visit new in-laws after a marriage
(idiom) to appoint people by favoritism; to practice cronyism (or nepotism)
closely related by blood
to act as a matchmaker
to make an offer of marriage (to another family on behalf of one's son or daughter) / to seek a marriage alliance
to look up and see no-one familiar (idiom); not having anyone to rely on / without a friend in the world
a distant relative
to attend to everything personally
to attend to personally / in person
to seek to profit by family ties
(honorific) your parent
Your esteemed parent (honorific)
to become related by marriage / to marry
courting / meeting for purpose of marriage / to settle into a relationship
variant of 定親|定亲
to accept a marriage proposal
bereavement / to lose a relative
doubly homesick for our dear ones at each festive day (from a poem by Wang Wei 王維|王维)
stepfamily / (old) stepmother / to marry
close relative
parents
direct descendant / blood relative
to remember one's parents / to feel homesick for one's relatives
arranged betrothal of minors
the poor are ignored in the busiest city; the rich will find relatives in the deepest mountain
men and women should not touch hands when they give or receive things (citation, from Mencius)
older generation in one's household (often referring to one's parents) / one's deceased close relatives
(formal) close kin / closest relative
surrogate mother
(Tw) to be in the care of one's relatives / to be dependent on a relative / to draw on family connections
to cut flesh from one's thigh to nourish a sick parent (idiom) / filial thigh-cutting
to place righteousness before family (idiom); ready to punish one's own family if justice demands it
one's flesh and blood
lit. casual aquaintances should not come between relatives / blood is thicker than water (idiom)
to be on intimate terms with sb (idiom)
relatives of the wife (slightly pejorative)
(of the groom's family) to send a bridal sedan chair 花轎|花轿 to fetch the bride / to send a party to escort the bride to the groom's house


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