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| | accurate / standard / definitely / certainly / about to become (bride, son-in-law etc) / quasi- / para- | HSK 3 |
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| | children; sons and daughters | HSK 3 |
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| | grandson / son's son | HSK 4 |
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| | son's daughter / granddaughter | HSK 4 |
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| | children; sons and daughters / a young man and a young woman (in love) | HSK 5 |
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| | prince / son of a king | HSK 6 |
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| | father and son | HSK 6 |
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| | daughter's husband; son-in-law | HSK 7-9 |
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| | 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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| | child / son | |
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| | Qi son of Yu the Great 禹, reported founder of the Xia Dynasty 夏朝 (c. 2070-c. 1600 BC) | |
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| | a (real) man / boy / son | |
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| | 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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| | pretty / winsome / to ask for sb's help / son-in-law (old) | |
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| | young child / (humble) my son | |
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| | son of the boss / young master of the house / your son (honorific) | |
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| | (bound form) sister's son; nephew | |
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| | surname Pan / Pan, faun in Greek mythology, son of Hermes | |
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| | brother's son; nephew | |
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| | filial son | |
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| | the (rightful) emperor / "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation) | |
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| | senior male fellow student or apprentice / son (older than oneself) of one's teacher | |
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| | emperor's son-in-law | |
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| | son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister) | |
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| | ferocious mythological animal, the fifth son of the dragon king / zoomorphic mask motif, found on Shang and Zhou ritual bronzes / gluttonous / sumptuous (banquet) | |
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| | hybrid / mixed breed / bastard / son of a bitch | |
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| | son of an official / son of nobility / your son (honorific) | |
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| | adopted son / foster son | |
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| | Cupid, son of Venus and Mars, Roman god of love and beauty | |
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| | son born of a concubine | |
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| | Holy Son / Jesus Christ / God the Son (in the Christian Trinity) | |
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| | the only son of a family / (functional programming or philosophy) monad | |
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| | daughter's son / grandson / descendant via the female line | |
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| | eldest son | |
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| | parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law / relatives by marriage | |
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| | son-in-law / husband | |
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| | son born of a concubine / disaster / sin / evil | |
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| | hedonistic son of rich parents | |
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| | second son | |
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| | son-in-law living at wife's parent's house | |
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| | filial piety (Confucian virtue) / to be a good son or daughter | |
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| | unfilial son | |
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| | noble and lowly / high versus low social hierarchy of ruler to people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism | |
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| | Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | the return of a prodigal son (idiom) | |
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| | eldest grandson / the eldest son of one's eldest son | |
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| | a son who is an only child | |
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| | adopted son | |
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| | loafer; wastrel; prodigal son | |
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| | illustrious hero, spirit of the place (idiom); a place derives reflected glory from an illustrious son | |
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| | father-in-law (wife's father) and son-in-law | |
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| | (literary) (humble) my son | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | unfilial son / unworthy son / illegitimate son / concubine's son | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | sister's son / wife's sibling's son | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | son orphaned of his mother | |
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| | brother's son; nephew | |
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| | beloved son | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Judas / Judah (son of Jacob) | |
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| | son, esp. the eldest son, of the wife (contrasted with 庶子) | |
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| | ideal son-in-law | |
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| | orphan / fatherless son | |
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| | son / heir | |
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| | adoption (e.g. of a nephew as a son) / to inherit | |
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| | lit. the dragon has nine sons (idiom); fig. all kinds of characters / good and bad intermingled / It takes all sorts to make a world. | |
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| | to make an offer of marriage (to another family on behalf of one's son or daughter) / to seek a marriage alliance | |
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| | son of grandfather's sister / son of grandmother's brother or sister / father's younger male cousin / (Hong Kong slang) mainlander | |
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| | pampered son of a wealthy family | |
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| | each sticks to his own opinion (idiom); chacun son gout | |
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| | to add a son to the family | |
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| | son of a male cousin via female line | |
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| | Isaac (son of Abraham) | |
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| | to bestow a title on the wife of a deserving official and make his son heir to his titles | |
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| | (idiom) a son or daughter; a child | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Ögedei Khan (1186-1242), a son of Genghis Khan | |
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| | heir / adopted son | |
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| | your esteemed son (honorific) | |
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| | lit. an old oyster producing a pearl (idiom) / fig. birthing a son at an advanced age | |
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| | son-in-law | |
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| | (literary) to have a baby boy; to celebrate the birth of a son | |
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| | 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 仁, righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom 智 and fidelity 信) | |
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| | eldest son | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | your son (honorific) | |
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| | Zerah (son of Judah in the Old Testament) | |
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| | Azor (son of Eliakim and father of Zadok in Matthew 1:13-14) | |
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| | puppy / my son (humble) | |
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| | (old) brother's son or daughter / nephew | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | illegitimate son | |
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| | a faun; (esp.) Pan, son of Hermes in Greek mythology | |
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| | eldest son | |
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| | Kim Jong-un (c. 1983-), third son of Kim Jong-il 金正日, supreme leader of North Korea from 2011 | |
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| | beloved son | |
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| | Liu Shan (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263 / Taiwan pr. [Liu2 Chan2] | |
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