"Sons" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
费诺儿子 費諾兒子 fèi nuò ér zǐ Sons
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
子女 zǐ nǚ children / sons and daughters syn
儿女 兒女 ér nǚ children / sons and daughters / a young man and a young woman (in love) syn
堂兄弟 táng xiōng dì father's brother's sons / paternal male cousin
三苏 三蘇 sān sū the Three Su's (famous Song dynasty writers Su Xun 蘇洵|苏洵[Su1 Xun2] and his sons Su Shi 蘇軾|苏轼[Su1 Shi4] and Su Zhe 蘇轍|苏辙[Su1 Zhe2])
三马同槽 三馬同槽 sān mǎ tóng cáo three horses at the same trough (idiom, alluding to Sima Yi 司馬懿|司马懿[Si1 ma3 Yi4] and his two sons) / conspirators under the same roof
龙生九子 龍生九子 lóng shēng jiǔ zǐ lit. the dragon has nine sons (idiom) / fig. all kinds of characters / good and bad intermingled / It takes all sorts to make a world. syn
三曹 sān cáo 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
不孝有三,无后为大 不孝有三,無後為大 bù xiào yǒu sān , wú hòu wéi dà there are three ways to be unfilial / having no sons is the worst (from Mencius 孟子[Meng4zi3])
唐宋八大家 táng sòng bā dà jiā Eight Giants of Tang and Song prose, esp. involved in the Classics movement 古文運動|古文运动[gu3 wen2 yun4 dong4], namely: Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈[Han2 Yu4], Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元[Liu3 Zong1 yuan2], Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修[Ou1 yang2 Xiu1], the Three Su father and sons 三蘇|三苏[San1 Su1], Wang Anshi 王安石[Wang2 An1 shi2], Zeng Gong 曾鞏|曾巩[Zeng1 Gong3]
多子多福 duō zǐ duō fú the more sons, the more happiness (idiom)
有子存焉 yǒu zǐ cún yān I still have sons, don't I? / fig. future generations will continue the work
贔屃 贔屭 bì xì Bixi, one of the nine sons of a dragon with the form of a tortoise, also known as 龜趺|龟趺[gui1 fu1]
三族 sān zú (old) three generations (father, self and sons) / three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's)
术赤 朮赤 zhú chì Jöchi (c. 1182-1227) Mongol army commander, eldest of Genghis Khan’s four sons
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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