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father / also pr. [fu4 qin5] / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
father and mother; parents
HSK 3
father and son
HSK 6
used for 師傅|师傅 (in Taiwan) / master / qualified worker
HSK 6
father and daughter
HSK 6
father's father / paternal grandfather
HSK 6
father's elder brother / term of respect for older man / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
wife's father, father-in-law
HSK 7-9
stepfather
HSK 7-9
Father's Day
godfather
strict or stern father
father or founder of a nation / Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen)
husband of mother's sister / uncle
paternal love
parent (computing)
father (Catholic or Orthodox priest)
Heavenly Father
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father
biological father
elders
adoptive father
people of one's parents' generation
step-parents
to be orphaned of one's father
foster father / adoptive father
(polite) my father
father's younger brother / uncle
father and elder brother(s) / head of the family / patriarch
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers / half (brother or sister)
father / old man / venerable sir
patricide / to kill one's own father
paternal line / patrilineal
with different father (e.g. of half-brother)
mother's brother / maternal uncle
lit. to acknowledge the bandit as one's father (idiom); fig. a complete betrayal / to sell oneself to the enemy
stepfather
deceased father / my late father
like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor
(term of respect) second only to father / like a father (to me)
(of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers / half (brother or sister)
term used by a father to refer to himself when speaking to his child
to have lost both one's parents
paternal grandparents
Holy Father / God the Father (in the Christian Trinity)
like father, like son (idiom)
foster father
father's younger brother / (sometimes used to refer to Confucius)
father's father's father / paternal great-grandfather
nobody understands one's son better than his father (idiom)
(idiom) parents' orders and matchmaker's services (in establishing an arranged marriage)
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
parents
paternal uncle
uncle (father's youngest brother)
patriarchy
(idiom) teacher for one day, father forever; students should have deep respect and lifelong gratitude for their teachers
great-grandparents
maternal grandfather (i.e. mother's father)
benevolent father, filial son (idiom) / natural love between parents and children
father (as a social role)
one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
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
Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power (ATBIP), or Father of All Bombs, a powerful Russian bomb
adoptive parents
Abba (Aramaic word father) / by ext. God the Father in Christian gospel
the death of one's father
the people one depends upon for one's livelihood / one's bread and butter
Xu Qinfu (1891-1953), journalist and writer
great-great-grandfather
in place of sb's parents / in loco parentis (law)
father's father's brother / great uncle
in the Name of the Father (in Christian worship)
one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
father's sister's husband; husband of paternal aunt; uncle
Electra complex
great-grandfather (mother's grandfather)
(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)
(literary) father's friends (of the same generation)
person of one's father's generation
biological parents / natural parents
people of one's grandparents' generation
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


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