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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
married woman / Mrs. / Madam / wife / CL: 個|个,
HSK 2
matching / fitting in with / compatible with / to correspond / to fit / to conform to / rapport / to coordinate with / to act in concert with / to cooperate / to become man and wife / to combine parts of machine
HSK 3
wife
HSK 4
a (married) couple / husband and wife / CL: 對|对
HSK 4
(coll.) wife
HSK 4
to drop in / to visit / to lock a door / (of a shop) to close / to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family
HSK 4
husband and wife; married couple
HSK 4
father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman)
HSK 4
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
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  *娶* | 娶* | *娶
to take a wife / to marry (a woman)
HSK 7-9
wife of father's elder brother / aunt / (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
daughter-in-law / wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation
HSK 7-9
wife's mother, mother-in-law
HSK 7-9
wife's father, father-in-law
HSK 7-9
(coll.) older brother's wife; sister-in-law
HSK 7-9
husband and wife
HSK 7-9
drumming on a bowl in grief (idiom, refers to Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子 grieving for his lost wife) / fig. grief for a lost wife
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *妻* | 妻* | *妻
(bound form) wife
older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman)
relatives of the wife (slightly pejorative)
wife and children
Chen Xiangmei (1925–2018), also known as Anna Chennault, Chinese-American writer and Republican politician, wife of Claire Lee Chennault 陳納德|陈纳德
(literary) father-in-law / wife's father
first wife
to get oneself a wife / to take a daughter-in-law
serviceman's wife / wives of military personnel
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *岳* | 岳* | *岳
wife's parents and paternal uncles
wife
(literary) mother-in-law / wife's mother
married woman; wife (as a social role)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姒* | 姒* | *姒
wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old)
lovely wife
(coll.) father's younger brother's wife / aunt
Jiang Qing (1914-1991), Mao Zedong's fourth wife and leader of the Gang of Four
my wife (humble)
to separate (married couple) / to live apart (of husband and wife, family members)
(dialect) wife / (dialect) young married woman
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嫡* | 嫡* | *嫡
(bound form) of or by the wife, as opposed to a concubine (contrasted with )
(of a groom) to fetch one's bride from her parents' home to escort her to the wedding ceremony / (fig.) to take as one's wife; to marry (a woman)
wife and child
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  *娣* | 娣* | *娣
wife of a younger brother
ex-wife / late wife
wife and children / wife
term of respect for a teacher's wife / sorceress
First Lady (wife of US president)
(dialect) form of address for one's wife / polite form of address for a woman
(of an elderly couple) husband or wife
younger brother's wife; sister-in-law
wife's family (before marriage)
to set sth upright or straight / to promote an employee from part-time to full-time (or from deputy to principal) / (old) to raise from concubine to wife status
Houyi, mythological Chinese archer whose wife was Chang'e
son-in-law living at wife's parent's house
wife swapping
wife, kids and a warm bed (idiom) / the simple and good life
in Qing dynasty, Manchurian word for wife
noble and lowly / high versus low social hierarchy of ruler to people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嫂* | 嫂* | *嫂
(bound form) older brother's wife; sister-in-law
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *眷* | 眷* | *眷
(bound form) one's family, esp. wife and children / (literary) to regard with love and affection; to feel concern for
wife of father's younger brother / aunt
to take a wife
to take a wife / to get married (man)
(coll.) father's older brother's wife / aunt (polite address)
(old) perfect wife / you, my beloved wife
husband's family (traditionally where the wife moves into)
to bury husband and wife together / joint interment
(coll.) wife's younger sister; sister-in-law (term not used to directly address her)
to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family
lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom) / fig. a wife having an illicit lover
wife / family / (literary) residence
a good wife and loving mother
(coll.) wife's older brother
father-in-law (wife's father) and son-in-law
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *妗* | 妗* | *妗
wife of mother's brother
wife's parents' home
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  *婶* | 婶* | *婶
wife of father's younger brother
second wife (of a widower)
wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother
sister's son / wife's sibling's son
term of respect for a teacher's wife
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *妺* | 妺* | *妺
wife of the last ruler of the Xia dynasty
(coll.) aunt / maternal uncle's wife
aunt / wife of father's younger brother
central building (in a traditional house) / primary wife
to treat each other as an honored guest (idiom) / mutual respect between husband and wife
to invite the groom (who will live with the bride's family) / to take a wife by one's own choice
lit. the happy fate of the man from Qi (who had a wife and a concubine) (idiom) / fig. (ironically) the joy of having several partners / the life of a pasha
wife of older male cousin via female line
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  *孨* | 孨* | *孨
(Internet slang) the three 's that symbolize success in life: a house, a car and a wife (房子, 車子|车子 and 妻子) / (archaic) cautious / cowardly
father's wife (term used by the children of a concubine to address their father's primary wife)
husband and wife (literary)
husband's parents; parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple; husband and wife
to repudiate one's wife
wife's father (father-in-law) / old man
first wife
wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife
mistress / second wife / lover
luan and phoenix / husband and wife / virtuous person / sovereign / belle
born of a concubine (rather than of the wife)
one's wife and children

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