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(coll.) wife
HSK 4
(coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother
HSK 7-9
husband's parents; parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple; husband and wife
wealthy woman
Caucasian woman (Cantonese)
primary wife
women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)
great-grandmother
henpecked / to be under one's wife's thumb
housewife (jocular) / female housekeeper of a higher rank (old) / busybody
(dialect) hen; prostitute / (Tw) (adjective) interfering; nosy; (noun) busybody (from Taiwanese 家婆, Tai-lo pr. [ke-pô])
(dialect) cockroach
witch / sorceress / female shaman
HSK 7-9
husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma
midwife
concubine / mistress / (dialect) woman
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  *婆* | 婆* | *婆
(bound form) grandmother / (bound form) matron / (bound form) mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)
aunt by marriage / husband's aunt / husband's father's younger brother's wife
Champa, ancient Indochinese kingdom lasting from the 2nd to the 17th century, located in what is now central and southern Vietnam
(dialect) mother-in-law / (house)wife
matchmaker
old woman (at times contemptuous)
(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
granny / mother-in-law
midwife who induces labor
meddling woman / nosy parker (Cantonese)
midwife
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
midwife
grandfather's sister / sister of a woman's father-in-law
faded old woman
hot-water bottle
Shiva (Hindu deity)
tomboy
midwife (old term)
(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
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


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