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to marry / to get married / CL:
HSK 3
to divorce
HSK 3
wedding ceremony / wedding / CL: 場|场
HSK 4
marriage; matrimony / CL: 樁|桩,
HSK 7-9
to get engaged
HSK 7-9
to propose marriage
HSK 7-9
wedding dress / CL:
HSK 7-9
to get married soon after meeting
marriage certificate
marriage leave
bigamy
newlyweds' home
unmarried
singles seeking marriage partners / in-laws and friends
to get married and have kids; to start a family
newly wed
an illegitimate child
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  *婚* | 婚* | *婚
to marry / marriage / wedding / to take a wife
married
(idiom) to marry because of an unplanned pregnancy
to remarry
extramarital affair
marriage
fiancé
engagement / wedding contract
to break off an engagement
fiancée
wedding / marriage / CL: 門|门, 樁|桩
love and marriage
(coll.) (usu. of women in former times) to marry for a second time / second marriage / person who remarries
to have an aversion to getting married
to remarry (the same person)
marriage upheaval (infidelity, divorce etc) / marriage breakup
posthumous or ghost marriage (in which at least one of the bride and groom is dead)
(old) marriage contract
to be witness (at a wedding)
wedding witness
wedding anniversary
length of married life / marriageable age / actual marrying age
to look for a partner
child marriage
to marry
to celebrate a wedding
(idiom) to experience the joy of being newly married
forced marriage / arranged marriage (without the consent of the individuals)
to intermarry
wedding day
marriage by capture / bride kidnapping
to break a promise of marriage
casting a couple's fortune based on their bithdates (old)
Juno, an asteroid
marriage agency
wedding reception
remarried lady (contemptuous term) / lady who marries for a second time
tin anniversary; aluminum anniversary (10th wedding anniversary)
trial marriage / to live together before deciding whether to marry
marriage law
born out of wedlock / illegitimate
to flee to avoid an arranged marriage
paper wedding (first wedding anniversary)
to propose marriage
to go back on a marriage contract / to repudiate an engagement
to marry too early
to propose the future marriage of two unborn babies on condition that one turns out to be a boy, and the other, a girl (idiom)
mixed marriage
premarital / prenuptial
wedding photos (done in studio, kit and caboodle taken care of by the studio)
to become engaged / to affiance (a daughter)
matchmaking; marriage introduction service (abbr. for 婚姻介紹|婚姻介绍)
variant of 訂婚|订婚
extramarital
to be married but keep it secret from family, colleagues or the general public
premarital sex
marriage custom
to urge sb (typically, one's adult child or nephew etc) to get married
same-sex marriage / gay marriage
to marry for the first time / to be newly married
wedding reception
wedding celebration
to lose one's spouse (through marriage failure or bereavement)
reunion after an absence is sweeter than being newlyweds (idiom) / absence makes the heart grow fonder
to marry after getting pregnant
newly married couple / newlyweds
ghost marriage (in which one or both parties are dead)
(derog.) (slang) married woman (term used by some feminists to imply that by marrying, women make themselves subservient to the patriarchal order)
lit. naked wedding / no-frills civil wedding ceremony lacking a material foundation: no car, house, reception, rings, or honeymoon
to marry after getting pregnant
prenuptial agreement / dowry contract
to save money on wedding expenses by getting together with another couple (or couples) in arranging restaurant reservations, wedding photo shoots etc
common-law marriage; de facto marriage
de facto marriage; common-law marriage
to have a grand wedding; to get married in lavish style
matchmaking agency; dating service (abbr. for 婚姻介紹所|婚姻介绍所)
wedding / marriage celebration
marriage counseling
wedding car
rather destroy ten temples than a single marriage (idiom)
married, with one or more children
sham marriage, esp. a marriage between a gay man and a lesbian arranged in response to parental expectations of a conventional marriage (abbr. for 形式婚姻)

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