姨夫 yí fu mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister syn 姨丈 yí zhàng mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister syn 姨婆 yí pó (strictly speaking) sister of one's maternal grandmother / (more broadly) grandaunt / sister of one's mother's mother or mother's father / (Tw) (old) husband's maternal aunt syn 姑 gū paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary) syn 婆婆 pó po husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma syn 公婆 gōng - pó husband's parents / parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple / husband and wife syn 挼 ruá (dialect) (of paper or cloth) wrinkled / crumpled / (dialect) (of clothes) worn out / (dialect) (of a fire's intensity, one's physical condition etc) weak / feeble / (dialect) (of skill) poor / inferior 相公 xiàng gong lord / master / young gentleman / male prostitute / catamite / mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes / (old form of address for one's husband) husband syn 姑父 gū fu father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle syn 姑夫 gū fu father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle syn 孙女婿 孫女婿 sūn nǚ xù son's daughter's husband / granddaughter'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 xù brother's daughter's husband / niece's husband syn 侄女婿 姪女婿 zhí nǚ xu brother's daughter's husband / niece's husband syn 叔婆 shū pó aunt by marriage / husband's aunt / husband's father's younger brother's wife syn 溜 liù swift current / rapids / (dialect) (of speech, actions etc) skilled / proficient / (of movements) quick / speedy / (bound form) rain runoff from a roof / (bound form) roof gutter / classifier for rows, lines etc / surroundings / neighborhood / (dialect) to practice / (dialect) to plaster / to fill in the cracks (with cement, lime plaster etc) syn 姨父 yí fu husband of mother's sister / uncle syn 翁姑 wēng gū husband's father and mother 阿家 ā gū husband's mother 外婆 wài pó (coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother syn 娘娘 niáng niang queen / empress / imperial concubine / Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West / mother / aunt syn 母女 mǔ nǚ mother and daughter / mother-daughter 姥姥 lǎo lao (coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother syn 岳母 yuè mǔ wife's mother, mother-in-law syn 丈母娘 zhàng mǔ niáng wife's mother / mother-in-law syn 生母 shēng mǔ natural mother / birth mother syn 养母 養母 yǎng mǔ foster mother / adoptive mother syn 大姨 dà yí aunt (mother's eldest sister) / (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) syn 外祖母 wài zǔ mǔ mother's mother / maternal grandmother syn 大姨妈 大姨媽 dà yí mā mother's eldest sister (older than one's mother) / (coll.) (euphemism) Aunt Flo (i.e. menstrual period) 丈母 zhàng mǔ wife's mother / mother-in-law syn 姨姥姥 yí lǎo lao mother's mother's sister / great-aunt 泰水 tài shuǐ (literary) mother-in-law / wife's mother 苏丹解放运动母亲派 蘇丹解放運動母親派 Sudan Liberation Movement-Mother / SLM-Mother 亲妈 親媽 qīn mā one's own mother / biological mother 先生 xiān sheng teacher / gentleman / sir / mister (Mr.) / husband / (dialect) doctor / CL:位[wei4] syn 汉子 漢子 hàn zi man / fellow / (dialect) husband syn 阿妈 阿媽 ā mā grandma (paternal) (Tw) / (dialect) mother / nurse / amah / (Manchu) father syn 姆妈 姆媽 mǔ mā mom / mother (dialect) 娭 āi see 娭姐[ai1 jie3], father's mother / granny (dialect) / respectful form of address for older lady 娭姐 āi jiě father's mother / granny (dialect) / respectful form of address for older lady 家婆 jiā pó (dialect) mother-in-law / (house)wife 姆妈 姆媽 m mā (dialect) mom / mother 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 风光 風光 fēng guāng scene / view / sight / landscape / to be well-regarded / to be well-off / grand (dialect) / impressive (dialect) syn 黄牛 黃牛 huáng niú ox / cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise syn 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 拿捏 ná niē (lit. and fig.) to grasp / to control / (dialect) affecting shyness / coy / (dialect) to deliberately create difficulties / to threaten 着 著 zhāo a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]) / trick / tactic / (dialect) okay / all right / (dialect) to put in / to add syn 种花 種花 zhòng huā to grow flowers / (dialect) to vaccinate / (dialect) to grow cotton syn 咧咧 liē liē (dialect) to cry / to whimper / (dialect) to talk drivel 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 砻 礱 lóng (dialect) tool used to hull rice (similar to a grain mill) / (dialect) to hull rice using this tool syn 㞎 bǎ (dialect) poo / (dialect) to shit 启海话 啟海話 qǐ hǎi huà Qihai dialect, a Wu dialect spoken in Tongzhou, Haimen, and Qidong districts in southern Jiangsu province, and on Chongming Island in Shanghai 媳妇 媳婦 xí fu (dialect) wife / (dialect) young married woman syn 拧巴 擰巴 nǐng ba (dialect) awkward / uncomfortable / (dialect) obstinate / contrary / argumentative 磕碜 磕磣 kē chen (dialect) ugly / unsightly / shabby / (dialect) to humiliate / to ridicule 馃子 餜子 guǒ zi (dialect) pastry / (dialect) youtiao / deep-fried cruller 齁甜 hōu tián (dialect) (of food) excessively sweet / cloying / (dialect) (of words, affection etc) sickenly sweet / overly sentimental 巴适 巴適 bā shì (Sichuan dialect) comfortable / suitable / excellent / really good / (Sichuan dialect) to be close to (sb) / to curry favor with 人家 rén jiā household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL:戶|户[hu4],家[jia1] syn 丈夫 zhàng fu husband syn 老公 lǎo gōng (coll.) husband syn 夫妻 fū qī husband and wife / married couple syn 老头 老頭 lǎo tóu old fellow / old man / father / husband syn 夫妇 夫婦 fū fù a (married) couple / husband and wife / CL:對|对[dui4] syn 进门 進門 jìn mén to enter a door / to go in / to learn the basics of a subject / to join one's husband's household upon marriage 老头子 老頭子 lǎo tóu zi (coll.) old man / (said of an aging husband) my old man syn 公公 gōng gong husband's father / father-in-law / grandpa / grandad / (old) form of address for a eunuch syn 女婿 nǚ xù daughter's husband / son-in-law syn 女婿 nǚ xu daughter's husband / son-in-law syn 姐夫 jiě fu (coll.) older sister's husband syn 男方 nán fāng (of a marriage) the bridegroom's side / the husband's side 双飞 雙飛 shuāng fēi flying in pairs / close union as husband and wife / round-trip flight / (slang) threesome 眷属 眷屬 juàn shǔ family member / husband and wife syn 夫君 fū jūn (honorific) husband syn 嫁人 jià rén (of a woman) to get married / to take a husband syn 口子 kǒu zi hole / opening / cut / gap / gash / my husband or wife / classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc) / precedent syn 老伴 lǎo bàn (of an elderly couple) husband or wife syn 改口 gǎi kǒu to change one's tune / to modify one's previous remark / to change the way one addresses sb (as when one marries and starts to call one's husband's parents 爸爸[ba4 ba5] and 媽媽|妈妈[ma1 ma5]) syn 分居 fēn jū to separate (married couple) / to live apart (of husband and wife, family members) 前夫 qián fū former husband 郎君 láng jūn my husband and master (archaic) / playboy of rich family / pimp syn 老儿 老兒 lǎo ér father / husband / old man 大伯 dà bó husband's older brother / father's older brother (esp. his oldest brother) syn 公婆 gōng pó husband's parents / parents-in-law syn 两口子 兩口子 liǎng kǒu zi husband and wife syn 贵贱 貴賤 guì jiàn noble and lowly / high versus low social hierarchy of ruler to people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism 婆家 pó jia husband's family syn 夫婿 fū xù (literary) husband syn 妹夫 mèi fu younger sister's husband syn 小姑 xiǎo gū father's youngest sister / husband's younger sister / sister-in-law syn 姑爷 姑爺 gū ye son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister) syn 老公公 lǎo gōng gong old man / husband's father / father-in-law / court eunuch syn 伉俪 伉儷 kàng lì husband and wife (literary) syn 大姑 dà gū father's oldest sister / husband's older sister / sister-in-law syn 烈女 liè nǚ a woman who dies fighting for her honor or follows her husband in death syn 小叔 xiǎo shū husband's younger brother / brother-in-law 