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"adopted daughter" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
养女 養女 yǎng nǚ adopted daughter syn
义女 義女 yì nǚ adopted daughter syn
干女儿 乾女兒 gān nǚ ér adopted daughter (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
Chinese Pinyin Translation
女儿 女兒 nǚ ér daughter syn
女 nǚ female / woman / daughter syn
姑娘 gū niang girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
侄女 姪女 zhí nǚ brother's daughter / niece syn
义 義 yì justice / righteousness / meaning / foster (father etc) / adopted / artificial (tooth, limb etc) / relationship / friendship syn
孙女 孫女 sūn nǚ son's daughter / granddaughter
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
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
儿媳妇 兒媳婦 ér xí fu daughter-in-law syn
养子 養子 yǎng zǐ adopted son / foster son 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
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
比亚 比亞 bǐ yà Bia, daughter of Pallas and Styx in Greek mythology, personification of violence
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
令爱 令愛 lìng ài (courteous) your daughter syn
孝道 xiào dao filial piety (Confucian virtue) / to be a good son or daughter syn
新妇 新婦 xīn fù bride / (dialect) daughter-in-law syn
次女 cì nǚ second daughter
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
首尔 首爾 shǒu ěr Seoul, capital of South Korea (Chinese name adopted in 2005 to replace 漢城|汉城[Han4 cheng2])
娶媳妇 娶媳婦 qǔ xí fù to get oneself a wife / to take a daughter-in-law
义子 義子 yì zǐ adopted son syn
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]
闯王 闖王 chuǎng wáng Chuangwang or Roaming King, adopted name of late Ming peasant rebel leader Li Zicheng 李自成 (1605-1645)
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
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
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
嗣子 sì zǐ heir / adopted son
侄女婿 姪女婿 zhí nǚ xu brother's daughter's husband / niece's husband syn
汉姓 漢姓 hàn xìng a Han family name (surname) / (esp.) a Han surname adopted by a person of another ethnic group
蒋纬国 蔣緯國 jiǎng wěi guó Chiang Wei-kuo (1916-1997), adopted son of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
甥女 shēng nǚ sister's daughter / niece syn
干儿子 乾兒子 gān ér zi adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) syn
外孙子 外孫子 wài sūn zi (coll.) daughter's son / grandson syn
大家闺秀 大家閨秀 dà jiā guī xiù girl from a wealthy family / unmarried daughter of a noble house
童养媳妇 童養媳婦 tóng yǎng xí fù child bride / girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law
外孙女儿 外孫女兒 wài sūn nǚ r granddaughter (one's daughter's daughter)
大小姐 dà xiǎo jie eldest daughter of an affluent family / (polite) your daughter / bossy or indulged young woman / Miss High and Mighty
望女成凤 望女成鳳 wàng nǚ chéng fèng lit. to hope one's daughter becomes a phoenix (idiom) / fig. to hope one's daughter is a success in life
陆克文 陸克文 lù kè wén Chinese name adopted by Kevin Rudd (1957-), Australian politician proficient in Mandarin, prime minister 2007-2010 and 2013
假子 jiǎ zǐ adopted son / stepson
出继 出繼 chū jì to become adopted as heir
国家标准中文交换码 國家標準中文交換碼 guó jiā biāo zhǔn zhōng wén jiāo huàn mǎ CNS 11643, Chinese character coding adopted in Taiwan, 1986-1992
寄名 jì míng adopted name / to take a name (of one's adoptive family)
物质文明和精神文明 物質文明和精神文明 wù zhì wén míng hé jīng shén wén míng material and spiritual culture / matter and mind / material progress, ideology and culture (philosophic slogan, adopted into Deng Xiaoping theory from 1978)
百花齐放，百家争鸣 百花齊放，百家爭鳴 bǎi huā qí fàng , bǎi jiā zhēng míng a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom) / refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956
继子女 繼子女 jì zǐ nǚ stepchildren / adopted children
首尔市 首爾市 shǒu ěr shì Seoul Metropolitan City, capital of South Korea (Chinese spelling adopted in 2005)
高德纳 高德納 gāo dé nà the Chinese name of American computer scientist Donald Knuth (1938-), adopted prior to his visit to China in 1977
卐 wàn swastika, a sacred and auspicious symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, later adopted by Nazi Germany
蒋中正 蔣中正 jiǎng zhōng zhèng Chiang Chung-cheng, adopted name of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石[Jiang3 Jie4shi2]
消除对妇女歧视委员会通过的一般性建议 General recommendations adopted by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
干儿 乾兒 gān ér adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
契子 qì zǐ adopted son
北京瘫 北京癱 běi jīng tān "Beijing slouch", sitting posture said to be adopted esp. by Beijingers, popularized by 葛優|葛优[Ge3 You1]
贺锦丽 賀錦麗 hè jǐn lì He Jinli, Chinese name adopted by Kamala Harris (1964-), US vice president 2021-
螟蛉 míng líng green rice caterpillar or similar insect larva / adopted son (Etymology: Wasps of a particular species take caterpillars to their nest as food for their offspring, but it was mistakenly believed that the wasps were raising the caterpillars as their own young.) syn
螟蛉子 míng líng zǐ adopted son
白晓燕 白曉燕 bái xiǎo yàn Pai Hsiao-yen (daughter of Pai Ping-ping)
孙女儿 孫女兒 sūn nǚ r granddaughter (son's daughter)
外甥女婿 wài sheng nǚ xù sister's daughter's husband
子细胞 子細胞 zǐ xì bāo daughter cell
女公子 nǚ gōng zǐ noble lady / (honorific) your daughter syn
嫁女 jià nǚ to marry off a daughter
扒灰 pá huī incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law
爬灰 pá huī incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law / also written 扒灰
玉人吹箫 玉人吹簫 yù rén chuī xiāo virtuoso piper wins a beauty / the xiao 簫|箫[xiao1] (mouth organ) virtuoso 蕭史|萧史[Xiao1 Shi3] won for his wife the beautiful daughter of Duke Mu of Qin 秦穆公[Qin2 Mu4 gong1]
许婚 許婚 xǔ hūn to become engaged / to affiance (a daughter)
贝·布托 貝·佈托 BeiButuo Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda
朴槿惠 樸槿惠 piáo jǐn huì Park Geun-hye (1952-), Korean politician, daughter of former dictator Park Chung-Hee 朴正熙[Piao2 Zheng4 xi1], president of Korea 2013-2017
贝・布托 貝・佈托 bèi · bù tuō Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda
贝娜齐尔・布托 貝娜齊爾・布托 bèi nà qí ěr · bù tuō Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda
表侄女 表姪女 biǎo zhí nǚ daughter of a male cousin via female line syn
媳妇熬成婆 媳婦熬成婆 xí fù áo chéng pó lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom) / fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor / what goes around comes around
寄女 jì nǚ foster daughter
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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