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HSK
father and mother; parents
HSK 3
father / also pr. [fu4 qin5] / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
father's father / paternal grandfather
HSK 6
father and daughter
HSK 6
father and son
HSK 6
wife's father, father-in-law
HSK 7-9
father's elder brother / term of respect for older man / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
father or founder of a nation / Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen)
step-parents
used for 師傅|师傅 (in Taiwan) / master / qualified worker
HSK 6
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father
paternal grandparents
parents
deceased father / my late father
father (as a social role)
benevolent father, filial son (idiom) / natural love between parents and children
(idiom) (of a son) to carry on one's father's business or profession
adoptive father
like father, like son (idiom)
(idiom) teacher for one day, father forever; students should have deep respect and lifelong gratitude for their teachers
(of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers / half (brother or sister)
father's father's father / paternal great-grandfather
godfather
like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor
father's sister's husband; husband of paternal aunt; uncle
Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power (ATBIP), or Father of All Bombs, a powerful Russian bomb
patriarchy
paternal uncle
with different father (e.g. of half-brother)
father and elder brother(s) / head of the family / patriarch
parent (computing)
to be orphaned of one's father
one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
patricide / to kill one's own father
paternal line / patrilineal
father's younger brother / uncle
(polite) my father
people of one's parents' generation
uncle (father's youngest brother)
the people one depends upon for one's livelihood / one's bread and butter
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers / half (brother or sister)
the master leads you to the door, the rest is up to you / you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink
biological father
term used by a father to refer to himself when speaking to his child
father / old man / venerable sir
Huang Fugui, ghost of legends who provided Liu Juanzi with his magical recipes 劉涓子鬼遺方|刘涓子鬼遗方
father's father's brother / great uncle
to have lost both one's parents
elders
lit. father a lion, son cannot be a dog (honorific); With a distinguished father such as you, the son is sure to do well. / like father, like son
strict or stern father
foster father
husband of mother's sister / uncle
one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
maternal grandfather (i.e. mother's father)
(idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽, who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)
nobody understands one's son better than his father (idiom)
foster father / adoptive father
Holy Father / God the Father (in the Christian Trinity)
in place of sb's parents / in loco parentis (law)
Electra complex
people of one's grandparents' generation
paternal love
lit. to acknowledge the bandit as one's father (idiom); fig. a complete betrayal / to sell oneself to the enemy
Father's Day
adoptive parents
Abba (Aramaic word father) / by ext. God the Father in Christian gospel
(term of respect) second only to father / like a father (to me)
great-great-grandfather
stepfather
HSK 7-9
father (Catholic or Orthodox priest)
(astronomy) Cepheid variable star
the death of one's father
person of one's father's generation
(idiom) parents' orders and matchmaker's services (in establishing an arranged marriage)
(literary) father's friends (of the same generation)
father's younger brother / (sometimes used to refer to Confucius)
biological parents / natural parents
Xu Qinfu (1891-1953), journalist and writer
great-grandparents
great-grandfather (mother's grandfather)
in the Name of the Father (in Christian worship)
stepfather
mother's brother / maternal uncle
(slang) father; dad (playful honorific, orthographic borrowing from Japanese "chichi-ue")
Heavenly Father


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