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HSK
(coll.) wife
HSK 4
witch / sorceress / female shaman
HSK 7-9
(coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother
HSK 7-9
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  *婆* | 婆* | *婆
(bound form) grandmother / (bound form) matron / (bound form) mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)
midwife
matchmaker
midwife
granny / mother-in-law
old woman (at times contemptuous)
wealthy woman
(dialect) hen; prostitute / (Tw) (adjective) interfering; nosy; (noun) busybody (from Taiwanese 家婆, Tai-lo pr. [ke-pô])
husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma
husband's parents; parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple; husband and wife
(Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess who gives a potion to souls before they are reincarnated, which makes them forget their previous life / (Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess of the wind
meddling woman / nosy parker (Cantonese)
great-grandmother
women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)
aunt by marriage / husband's aunt / husband's father's younger brother's wife
hot-water bottle
housewife (jocular) / female housekeeper of a higher rank (old) / busybody
Caucasian woman (Cantonese)
concubine / mistress / (dialect) woman
primary wife
tomboy
Shiva (Hindu deity)
(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
grandfather's sister / sister of a woman's father-in-law
(dialect) mother-in-law / (house)wife
midwife who induces labor
faded old woman
(dialect) cockroach
Champa, ancient Indochinese kingdom lasting from the 2nd to the 17th century, located in what is now central and southern Vietnam
lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom) / fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor / what goes around comes around
henpecked / to be under one's wife's thumb
midwife
midwife (old term)
lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (idiom) / fig. it's not something you can avoid forever


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