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HSK
father's father / paternal grandfather
HSK 6
used for 師傅|师傅 (in Taiwan) / master / qualified worker
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
(idiom) teacher for one day, father forever; students should have deep respect and lifelong gratitude for their teachers
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *父* | 父* | *父
father
deceased father / my late father
father (as a social role)
father or founder of a nation / Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen)
stepfather
HSK 7-9
father's father's father / paternal great-grandfather
godfather
father's sister's husband; husband of paternal aunt; uncle
strict or stern father
(term of respect) second only to father / like a father (to me)
father's younger brother / uncle
(polite) my father
uncle (father's youngest brother)
biological father
father / old man / venerable sir
father's father's brother / great uncle
foster father
(of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers / half (brother or sister)
husband of mother's sister / uncle
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)
foster father / adoptive father
Abba (Aramaic word father) / by ext. God the Father in Christian gospel
patricide / to kill one's own father
great-great-grandfather
Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power (ATBIP), or Father of All Bombs, a powerful Russian bomb
father (Catholic or Orthodox priest)
father's younger brother / (sometimes used to refer to Confucius)
stepfather
great-grandfather (mother's grandfather)
adoptive father
Holy Father / God the Father (in the Christian Trinity)
mother's brother / maternal uncle
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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