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


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