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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
husband and wife; married couple
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
father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman)
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *娶* | 娶* | *娶
to take a wife / to marry (a woman)
HSK 7-9
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
daughter-in-law / wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation
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
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
wife
wife and children
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *妻* | 妻* | *妻
(bound form) wife
older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *婚* | 婚* | *婚
to marry / marriage / wedding / to take a wife
to get oneself a wife / to take a daughter-in-law
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *岳* | 岳* | *岳
wife's parents and paternal uncles
flying in pairs / close union as husband and wife / round-trip flight / (slang) threesome
married woman; wife (as a social role)
(coll.) wife's older brother
Song Qingling (1893-1981), second wife of Sun Yat-sen 孫中山|孙中山, influential political figure in China after Sun's death in 1925
(coll.) wife's younger brother
lovely wife
first wife
son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister)
(coll.) father's younger brother's wife / aunt
wife's mother; mother-in-law
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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *娣* | 娣* | *娣
wife of a younger brother
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姒* | 姒* | *姒
wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old)
ex-wife / late wife
wife and children / wife
term of respect for a teacher's wife / sorceress
(dialect) form of address for one's wife / polite form of address for a woman
family member / husband and wife
(of an elderly couple) husband or wife
six close relatives, namely: father , mother , older brothers , younger brothers , wife , male children / one's kin
younger brother's wife; sister-in-law
Houyi, mythological Chinese archer whose wife was Chang'e
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
son-in-law living at wife's parent's house
wife swapping
in Qing dynasty, Manchurian word for wife
First Lady (wife of US president)
noble and lowly / high versus low social hierarchy of ruler to people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嫂* | 嫂* | *嫂
(bound form) older brother's wife; sister-in-law
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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)
serviceman's wife / wives of military personnel
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
father-in-law (wife's father) and son-in-law
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *妗* | 妗* | *妗
wife of mother's brother
wife's parents' home
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *婶* | 婶* | *婶
wife of father's younger brother
second wife (of a widower)
sister's son / wife's sibling's son
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *妺* | 妺* | *妺
wife of the last ruler of the Xia dynasty
term of respect for a teacher's wife
(coll.) aunt / maternal uncle's wife
aunt / wife of father's younger brother
waistband of a skirt / (fig.) related to the wife or another female family member
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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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)
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
son, esp. the eldest son, of the wife (contrasted with 庶子)
wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife
mistress / second wife / lover

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