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to marry / to get married / CL:
HSK 3
to divorce
HSK 3
to get engaged
HSK 7-9
to propose marriage
HSK 7-9
newly wed
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  *婚* | 婚* | *婚
to marry / marriage / wedding / to take a wife
married
to remarry
to get married
to break off an engagement
unmarried
(coll.) (usu. of women in former times) to marry for a second time / second marriage / person who remarries
to remarry (the same person)
posthumous or ghost marriage (in which at least one of the bride and groom is dead)
to be witness (at a wedding)
to look for a partner
child marriage
to intermarry
marriage by capture / bride kidnapping
to break a promise of marriage
casting a couple's fortune based on their bithdates (old)
tin anniversary; aluminum anniversary (10th wedding anniversary)
trial marriage / to live together before deciding whether to marry
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)
to marry for the first time / to be newly married
mixed marriage
bigamy
to become engaged / to affiance (a daughter)
variant of 訂婚|订婚
to have a grand wedding; to get married in lavish style
to be married but keep it secret from family, colleagues or the general public
to have an aversion to getting married
to urge sb (typically, one's adult child or nephew etc) to get married
same-sex marriage / gay marriage
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
ghost marriage (in which one or both parties are dead)
lit. naked wedding / no-frills civil wedding ceremony lacking a material foundation: no car, house, reception, rings, or honeymoon
to marry after getting pregnant
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
(idiom) to marry because of an unplanned pregnancy
rather destroy ten temples than a single marriage (idiom)
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)
to get married right after graduation
formal betrothal (in which the boy's family sends presents to the girl's family)
of marriageable age
silver wedding (25th wedding anniversary)
to get married soon after meeting (abbr. for 閃電結婚|闪电结婚) (neologism c. 2005)
to get married soon after meeting


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