大 dà big / large / great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4jie3]) / greatly / freely / fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) syn 女儿 女兒 nǚ ér daughter syn 女 nǚ female / woman / daughter syn 咱们 咱們 zán men we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to) / (dialect) I or me / (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you / also pr. [za2 men5] syn 姑娘 gū niang girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 着 著 zhāo a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]) / trick / tactic / (dialect) okay / all right / (dialect) to put in / to add syn 执法 執法 zhí fǎ to enforce a law / law enforcement 侄女 姪女 zhí nǚ brother's daughter / niece syn 孙女 孫女 sūn nǚ son's daughter / granddaughter 风光 風光 fēng guāng scene / view / sight / landscape / to be well-regarded / to be well-off / grand (dialect) / impressive (dialect) syn 定律 dìng lǜ scientific law (e.g. law of conservation of energy) / (in human affairs) a generalization based on observation (e.g. "power corrupts") syn 母女 mǔ nǚ mother and daughter / mother-daughter 女婿 nǚ xù daughter's husband / son-in-law syn 父女 fù nǚ father and daughter 外孙 外孫 wài sūn daughter's son / grandson / descendant via the female line syn 严刑 嚴刑 yán xíng strict law / cruel punishment / to carry out cruel law rigorously syn 千金 qiān jīn thousand jin 斤 (pounds) of gold / money and riches / (honorific) invaluable (support) / (honorific) daughter syn 外孙女 外孫女 wài sūn nǚ daughter's daughter / granddaughter 小女 xiǎo nǚ my daughter (humble) 媳妇 媳婦 xí fù daughter-in-law / wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation syn 独生女 獨生女 dú shēng nǚ a daughter who is an only child syn 起诉书 起訴書 qǐ sù shū indictment (law) / statement of charges (law) syn 儿媳妇 兒媳婦 ér xí fu daughter-in-law syn 闺女 閨女 guī nu: maiden / unmarried woman / daughter syn 外甥女 wài sheng nǚ sister's daughter / wife's sibling's daughter syn 儿媳 兒媳 ér xí daughter-in-law syn 亲家 親家 qìng jia parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law / relatives by marriage syn 养女 養女 yǎng nǚ adopted daughter syn 长女 長女 zhǎng nǚ eldest daughter 掌上明珠 zhǎng shàng míng zhū lit. a pearl in the palm (idiom) / fig. beloved person (esp. daughter) syn 王法 wáng fǎ the law / the law of the land / the law of a state (in former times) / criterion syn 比亚 比亞 bǐ yà Bia, daughter of Pallas and Styx in Greek mythology, personification of violence 黄牛 黃牛 huáng niú ox / cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise syn 以身试法 以身試法 yǐ shēn shì fǎ to challenge the law (idiom) / to knowingly violate the law syn 护法 護法 hù fǎ to keep the law / to protect Buddha's teachings / protector of Buddhist law (i.e. temple donor) 法治 fǎ zhì rule of law / to rule by law syn 姑奶奶 gū nǎi nai paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister) / (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter / (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I / me / this lady here / (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach 种花 種花 zhòng huā to grow flowers / (dialect) to vaccinate / (dialect) to grow cotton syn 贪赃枉法 貪贓枉法 tān zāng wǎng fǎ corruption and abuse of the law (idiom) / to take bribes and bend the law syn 令爱 令愛 lìng ài (courteous) your daughter syn 天道 tiān dào natural law / heavenly law / weather (dialect) syn 公司法 gōng sī fǎ corporations law / company law / corporate law 义女 義女 yì nǚ adopted daughter syn 孝道 xiào dao filial piety (Confucian virtue) / to be a good son or daughter syn 次女 cì nǚ second daughter 习惯法 習慣法 xí guàn fǎ customary law / common law 师姐 師姐 shī jiě senior female fellow student or apprentice / daughter (older than oneself) of one's teacher 师妹 師妹 shī mèi junior female student or apprentice / daughter (younger than oneself) of one's teacher 婆媳 pó xí mother-in-law and daughter-in-law 童养媳 童養媳 tóng yǎng xí child bride / girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law 女婿 nǚ xu daughter's husband / son-in-law syn 玉女 yù nǚ beautiful woman / fairy maiden attending the Daoist immortals / (polite) sb else's daughter / Chinese dodder (Cuscuta chinensis), plant whose seeds are used for TCM syn 闺女 閨女 guī nǚ maiden / unmarried woman / daughter syn 拿捏 ná niē (lit. and fig.) to grasp / to control / (dialect) affecting shyness / coy / (dialect) to deliberately create difficulties / to threaten 咧咧 liē liē (dialect) to cry / to whimper / (dialect) to talk drivel 娶媳妇 娶媳婦 qǔ xí fù to get oneself a wife / to take a daughter-in-law 小家碧玉 xiǎo jiā bì yù pretty daughter in a humble family syn 精卫 精衛 jīng wèi mythological bird, reincarnation of drowned daughter Nüwa 女娃[Nu:3 wa2] of Fiery Emperor 炎帝[Yan2 di4] 法政 fá zhèng law and government / law and politics syn 嫁 jià (of a woman) to marry / to marry off a daughter / to shift (blame etc) syn 妻 qì to marry off (a daughter) syn 兴 興 xīng to rise / to flourish / to become popular / to start / to encourage / to get up / (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect) / maybe (dialect) syn 媳 xí daughter-in-law syn 囡 nān child / daughter syn 孙女婿 孫女婿 sūn nǚ xù son's daughter's husband / granddaughter's husband syn 执法如山 執法如山 zhí fǎ rú shān to maintain the law as firm as a mountain (idiom) / to enforce the law strictly syn 侄女婿 姪女婿 zhí nǚ xù brother's daughter's husband / niece's husband syn 孙女婿 孫女婿 sūn nǚ xu son's daughter's husband / granddaughter's husband syn 侄女婿 姪女婿 zhí nǚ xu brother's daughter's husband / niece's husband syn 砻 礱 lóng (dialect) tool used to hull rice (similar to a grain mill) / (dialect) to hull rice using this tool syn 别 別 bié to leave / to part (from) / (literary) to differentiate / to distinguish / (dialect) to turn away / to turn aside / to avert (one's face, gaze etc) / (bound form) other / another / different / don't ...! / to fasten with a pin or clip / to stick in / to insert (in order to hinder movement) / (noun suffix) category (as in 性別|性别[xing4 bie2], 派別|派别[pai4 bie2]) syn 先生 xiān sheng teacher / gentleman / sir / mister (Mr.) / husband / (dialect) doctor / CL:位[wei4] syn 中 zhōng within / among / in / middle / center / while (doing sth) / during / (dialect) OK / all right syn 二 èr two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid syn 整 zhěng (bound form) whole / complete / entire / (before a measure word) whole / (before or after number + measure word) exactly / (bound form) in good order / tidy / neat / (bound form) to put in order / to straighten / (bound form) to repair / to mend / to renovate / (coll.) to fix sb / to give sb a hard time / to mess with sb / (dialect) to tinker with / to do sth to syn 事儿 事兒 shì r one's employment / business / matter that needs to be settled / (northern dialect) (of a person) demanding / trying / troublesome / erhua variant of 事[shi4] / CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1] syn 味道 wèi dao flavor / taste / (fig.) feeling (of ...) / sense (of ...) / hint (of ...) / (fig.) interest / delight / (dialect) smell / odor syn 对付 對付 duì fu to handle / to deal with / to tackle / to get by with / to make do / (dialect) (usu. used in the negative) to get along with (sb) syn 海 hǎi ocean / sea / CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4] / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous syn 仔细 仔細 zǐ xì careful / attentive / cautious / to be careful / to look out / (dialect) thrifty / frugal syn 眼神 yǎn shén expression or emotion showing in one's eyes / meaningful glance / wink / eyesight (dialect) syn 争 爭 zhēng to strive for / to vie for / to argue or debate / deficient or lacking (dialect) / how or what (literary) syn 老爹 lǎo diē (dialect) father / old man / sir syn 价 價 jie particle used between an adverb and a verb or adjective / (dialect) particle used after a negative adverb such as 不[bu4] or 別|别[bie2] without any other following element syn 周日 週日 zhōu rì (dialect) weekday syn 大大 dà dà greatly / enormously / (dialect) dad / uncle syn 阿拉 ā lā (Wu dialect) I / me / my / we / us / our 早已 zǎo yǐ for a long time / long since / (dialect) in the past syn 吹牛 chuī niú to talk big / to shoot off one's mouth / to chat (dialect) syn 耗子 hào zi (dialect) mouse / rat syn 早晚 zǎo wǎn morning and evening / (in reference to sth that is bound to happen) sooner or later / one of these days / (coll.) (this, or that) point of time / (dialect) at some time in the future syn 猩猩 xīng xing orangutan / (slang) dialect speaker whose speech is corrupted by Standard Mandarin syn 过早 過早 guò zǎo premature / untimely / (dialect) to have breakfast / breakfast 钳子 鉗子 qián zi pliers / pincers / tongs / forceps / vise / clamp / claw (of a crab etc) / CL:把[ba3] / (dialect) earring syn 汉子 漢子 hàn zi man / fellow / (dialect) husband syn 后续 後續 hòu xù follow-up / (dialect) to remarry syn 交朋友 jiāo péng you to make friends / (dialect) to start an affair with sb 自个儿 自個兒 zì gě r (dialect) oneself / by oneself syn 麻雀 má què sparrow / (dialect) mahjong syn 