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  *做* | 做* | *做
to make; to produce / to write; to compose / to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc) / (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc) / (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for / to assume (an air or manner)
HSK 1
husband
HSK 4
teacher / gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.) / husband / (dialect) doctor / CL:
HSK 1
a (married) couple / husband and wife / CL: 對|对
HSK 4
(coll.) husband
HSK 4
husband and wife; married couple
HSK 4
daughter's husband; son-in-law
HSK 7-9
(of a married woman) to cheat on her husband; to have an affair
husband and wife
HSK 7-9
husband and wife
(of a woman) to get married; to take a husband
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  *夫* | 夫* | *夫
husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)
father's brother (uncle) / husband's brother (brother-in-law)
household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL: 戶|户,
husband's father; father-in-law / grandpa; grandad / (old) form of address for a eunuch
husband's parents; parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple; husband and wife
(honorific) husband
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *丈* | 丈* | *丈
measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male
hole / opening / cut / gap / gash / my husband or wife / classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc) / precedent
HSK 7-9
(literary) husband and wife; married couple
flying in pairs / close union as husband and wife / round-trip flight / (slang) threesome
to separate (married couple) / to live apart (of husband and wife, family members)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *叔* | 叔* | *叔
uncle / father's younger brother / husband's younger brother / Taiwan pr. [shu2]
to stay at home while one's husband is away / grass widow
(archaic) term used by a husband to refer to himself when speaking to his wife
three principles and five virtues (idiom) / the three rules (ruler guides subject, father guides son and husband guides wife) and five constant virtues of Confucianism (benevolence , righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom and fidelity )
husband and wife / couple
son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister)
older sister's husband / brother-in-law
father's sister's husband; husband of paternal aunt; uncle
lit. the lioness from Hedong roars (idiom) / fig. refers to a shrewish wife or a henpecked husband
younger sister's husband
the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend)
(coll.) old man / (said of an aging husband) my old man
my husband and master (archaic) / playboy of rich family / pimp
(coll.) older sister's husband
(of a married woman) to cheat on her husband; to have an affair
old fellow / old man / father / husband
father's oldest sister / husband's older sister / sister-in-law
married man; husband (as a social role)
husband's sister / (coll.) Buddhist nun
husband's older brother / father's older brother (esp. his oldest brother)
husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma
to be buried alive as sacrifice (together with husband or superior)
husband of younger female cousin via female line
wealthy son-in-law / wealthy husband
Ahab (9th c. BC), King of Israel, son of Omri and husband of Jezebel, prominent figure in 1 Kings 16-22
(literary) husband
older sister's husband
son's daughter's husband / granddaughter's husband
husband (arch.)
man / fellow / (dialect) husband
husbands of sisters / brothers-in-law / extremely close (of a relationship)
(coll.) husband's younger sister; sister-in-law
father / husband / old man
former husband
aunt by marriage / husband's aunt / husband's father's younger brother's wife
ideal husband; Mr. Right
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *婿* | 婿* | *婿
son-in-law / husband
husband's mother
working couple (husband and wife both employed)
great uncle / grandfather's younger brother / husband's father's younger brother
If you marry a chicken, follow the chicken (idiom); A woman should follow whatever her husband orders. / We must learn to accept the people around us.
husband of father's sister / uncle
mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister
brother's daughter's husband / niece's husband
wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband
to bury husband and wife together / joint interment
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姑* | 姑* | *姑
paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary)
husband of mother's sister / uncle
(dialect) husband's mother
to change one's tune / to modify one's previous remark / to change the way one addresses sb (as when one marries and starts to call one's husband's parents 爸爸 and 媽媽|妈妈)
splitcharactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *PU* | PU* | *PU
the degree of suspicion that a woman might, after she marries, cheat on her husband (abbr. for "paternity uncertainty")
husband of younger female cousin via male line
husband of older female cousin via male line
a woman is born to leave her family (idiom) / a woman's heart is with her husband
husband of paternal aunt
heroine of Qin dynasty 秦朝 folk tale, who searched for her husband, and whose tears broke down a stretch of the Great Wall to reveal his body
teacher's husband
(polite) my husband
sister's daughter's husband
husband's father
to assist one's husband and educate the children (idiom) / the traditional roles of a good wife
(of an elderly couple) husband or wife
(strictly speaking) sister of one's maternal grandmother; (more broadly) grandaunt; sister of one's mother's mother or mother's father / (Tw) (old) husband's maternal aunt
(of a widow) faithful to the death to her husband's memory
father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle
old man / husband's father / father-in-law / court eunuch
(of a husband and wife etc) to spend more time apart than together; to see each other very little
to enter a door / to go in / to learn the basics of a subject / to join one's husband's household upon marriage
lit. the story of the broken mirror of Princess Lechang 樂昌公主|乐昌公主 (In the tale, the princess and her husband, fearing separation during the turbulence of war, broke a bronze mirror in half. They each kept one half as a token, with the promise to reunite by matching the pieces together. They were indeed separated, but eventually reunited, with the mirror playing a crucial role in their reunion.) (idiom) / fig. the reunion of separated lovers or the restoration of a relationship
menfolk (collective term for men of different generations) / husbands and their fathers etc
mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister
husband's family (traditionally where the wife moves into)
husband of older female cousin via female line
(coll.) husband's elder brother
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姒* | 姒* | *姒
wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old)
brother-in-law (younger sister's husband)
(of a marriage) the bridegroom's side; the husband's side
family member / husband and wife

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