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son
HSK 1
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  *准* | 准* | *准
accurate / standard / definitely / certainly / about to become (bride, son-in-law etc) / quasi- / para-
HSK 3
children; sons and daughters
HSK 3
grandson / son's son
HSK 4
son's daughter / granddaughter
HSK 4
children; sons and daughters / a young man and a young woman (in love)
HSK 5
prince / son of a king
HSK 6
father and son
HSK 6
daughter's husband; son-in-law
HSK 7-9
Duke of Zhou (11th c. BC), son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王, played an important role as regent in founding the Western Zhou 西周, and is also known as the "God of Dreams"
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  *儿* | 儿* | *儿
child / son
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  *启* | 启* | *启
Qi son of Yu the Great , reported founder of the Xia Dynasty 夏朝 (c. 2070-c. 1600 BC)
a (real) man / boy / son
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  *子* | 子* | *子
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
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  *倩* | 倩* | *倩
pretty / winsome / to ask for sb's help / son-in-law (old)
young child / (humble) my son
son of the boss / young master of the house / your son (honorific)
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  *甥* | 甥* | *甥
(bound form) sister's son; nephew
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  *潘* | 潘* | *潘
surname Pan / Pan, faun in Greek mythology, son of Hermes
brother's son; nephew
filial son
the (rightful) emperor / "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation)
senior male fellow student or apprentice / son (older than oneself) of one's teacher
emperor's son-in-law
son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister)
ferocious mythological animal, the fifth son of the dragon king / zoomorphic mask motif, found on Shang and Zhou ritual bronzes / gluttonous / sumptuous (banquet)
hybrid / mixed breed / bastard / son of a bitch
son of an official / son of nobility / your son (honorific)
adopted son / foster son
Cupid, son of Venus and Mars, Roman god of love and beauty
son born of a concubine
Holy Son / Jesus Christ / God the Son (in the Christian Trinity)
the only son of a family / (functional programming or philosophy) monad
daughter's son / grandson / descendant via the female line
eldest son
parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law / relatives by marriage
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  *婿* | 婿* | *婿
son-in-law / husband
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  *孽* | 孽* | *孽
son born of a concubine / disaster / sin / evil
hedonistic son of rich parents
second son
son-in-law living at wife's parent's house
filial piety (Confucian virtue) / to be a good son or daughter
unfilial son
noble and lowly / high versus low social hierarchy of ruler to people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism
Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality , physical charm , propriety in speech and efficiency in needlework
the return of a prodigal son (idiom)
eldest grandson / the eldest son of one's eldest son
a son who is an only child
adopted son
loafer; wastrel; prodigal son
illustrious hero, spirit of the place (idiom); a place derives reflected glory from an illustrious son
father-in-law (wife's father) and son-in-law
(literary) (humble) my son
Hong Taiji (1592-1643), eighth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤|努尔哈赤, reigned 1626-1636 as Second Khan of Later Jin dynasty 後金|后金, then founded the Qing dynasty 大清 and reigned 1636-1643 as Emperor / posthumous name 清太宗
unfilial son / unworthy son / illegitimate son / concubine's son
A-dou, nickname of Liu Shan 劉禪|刘禅 (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263 / (fig.) weak and inept person
sister's son / wife's sibling's son
Dorgon (1612-1651), fourteenth son of Nurhaci 努爾哈赤|努尔哈赤, successful general, instrumental in Manchu conquest of China, ruled China as regent 1644-1650 for his nephew Emperor Shunzhi 順治帝|顺治帝
son orphaned of his mother
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  *侄* | 侄* | *侄
brother's son; nephew
beloved son
lit. to hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom); fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life / to have great hopes for one's offspring / to give one's child the best education as a career investment
Judas / Judah (son of Jacob)
son, esp. the eldest son, of the wife (contrasted with 庶子)
ideal son-in-law
orphan / fatherless son
son / heir
adoption (e.g. of a nephew as a son) / to inherit
lit. the dragon has nine sons (idiom); fig. all kinds of characters / good and bad intermingled / It takes all sorts to make a world.
to make an offer of marriage (to another family on behalf of one's son or daughter) / to seek a marriage alliance
son of grandfather's sister / son of grandmother's brother or sister / father's younger male cousin / (Hong Kong slang) mainlander
pampered son of a wealthy family
each sticks to his own opinion (idiom); chacun son gout
to add a son to the family
son of a male cousin via female line
Isaac (son of Abraham)
to bestow a title on the wife of a deserving official and make his son heir to his titles
(idiom) a son or daughter; a child
three horses at the same trough (idiom, alluding to Sima Yi 司馬懿|司马懿 and his two sons); conspirators under the same roof
Ögedei Khan (1186-1242), a son of Genghis Khan
heir / adopted son
your esteemed son (honorific)
lit. an old oyster producing a pearl (idiom) / fig. birthing a son at an advanced age
son-in-law
(literary) to have a baby boy; to celebrate the birth of a son
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 )
eldest son
the Three Caos (Cao Cao 曹操 and his sons Cao Pi 曹丕 and Cao Zhi 曹植), who established the Wei or Cao Wei dynasty 曹魏, and were all three noted poets and calligraphers
your son (honorific)
Zerah (son of Judah in the Old Testament)
Azor (son of Eliakim and father of Zadok in Matthew 1:13-14)
puppy / my son (humble)
(old) brother's son or daughter / nephew
Cao Pi (187-226), second son of Cao Cao 曹操, king then emperor of Cao Wei 曹魏 from 220, ruled as Emperor Wen 魏文帝, also a noted calligrapher
illegitimate son
a faun; (esp.) Pan, son of Hermes in Greek mythology
eldest son
Kim Jong-un (c. 1983-), third son of Kim Jong-il 金正日, supreme leader of North Korea from 2011
beloved son
Liu Shan (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263 / Taiwan pr. [Liu2 Chan2]

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