"family of origin" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
原生家庭 yuán shēng jiā tíng family of origin
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
一家 yī jiā the whole family / the same family / the family ... (when preceded by a family name) / group
携家带口 攜家帶口 xié jiā dài kǒu (idiom) to take all one's family along / encumbered by a family / tied down by family obligations syn
携家带眷 攜家帶眷 xié jiā dài juàn to take all one's family along (idiom) / encumbered by a family / tied down by family obligations
芸香科 yún xiāng kē (botany) family Rutaceae (rue family, aka citrus family)
扩大家庭 擴大家庭 extended family / composite family / joint family
复合家庭 複合家庭 extended family / composite family / joint family
组合家庭 組合家庭 extended family / composite family / joint family
一家人不说两家话 一家人不說兩家話 yī jiā rén bù shuō liǎng jiā huà lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from two different families (idiom) / fig. people don't need to be deferential when they ask a family member for help / people from the same family should stick together (and good friends likewise)
出身 chū shēn to be born of / to come from / family background / class origin syn
郡望 jùn wàng choronym (a family's region of origin, used as an indicator of superior social status in a surname-choronym combination) (For example, the Tang writer Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈[Han2 Yu4] is also known as 韓昌黎|韩昌黎[Han2 Chang1li2], where 韓|韩[Han2] is his surname and 昌黎[Chang1li2] is his clan's ancestral prefecture 郡[jun4].)
上门 上門 shàng mén 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 syn
门户 門戶 mén hù door / strategic gateway / portal / faction / sect / family status / family / web portal / (old) brothel syn
家属 家屬 jiā shǔ family member / (family) dependent syn
世家 shì jiā family influential for generations / aristocratic family syn
大户 大戶 dà hù great family / rich family / large landlord / conspicuous spender or consumer syn
家境 jiā jìng family financial situation / family circumstances syn
皇室 huáng shì royal family / imperial household / member of the royal family syn
家私 jiā sī family property / family wealth syn
养家 養家 yǎng jiā to support a family / to raise a family
家传 家傳 jiā chuán handed down in a family / family traditions syn
良家 liáng jiā respectable family / decent family
天伦 天倫 tiān lún family bonds / ethical family relations syn
辈分 輩分 bèi fèn seniority in the family or clan / position in the family hierarchy syn
寒门 寒門 hán mén poor and humble family / my family (humble) syn
送终 送終 sòng zhōng to attend upon a dying parent or other senior family member / to handle the funeral affairs of a senior family member
大义灭亲 大義滅親 dà yì miè qīn to place righteousness before family (idiom) / ready to punish one's own family if justice demands it syn
柴门 柴門 chái mén lit. woodcutter's family / humble background / poor family background syn
入赘 入贅 rù zhuì to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family syn
门风 門風 mén fēng family tradition / family principles syn
fáng house / room / CL:間|间[jian1] / branch of an extended family / classifier for family members (or concubines) syn
包袱底儿 包袱底兒 bāo fu dǐ r family heirloom / most precious family possession / person's secrets / one's best performance
拉家带口 拉家帶口 lā jiā dài kǒu to bear the burden of a household (idiom) / encumbered by a family / tied down by family obligations syn
书香门第 書香門第 shū xiāng mén dì family with a literary reputation (idiom) / literary family syn
养家糊口 養家糊口 yǎng jiā hú kǒu to support one's family (idiom) / to have difficulty feeding a family
一家人 yī jiā rén the whole family / members of the same family (lit. or fig.)
光耀门楣 光耀門楣 guāng yào mén méi splendor shines on the family's door (idiom) / fig. to bring honor to one's family
团年 團年 tuán nián (of a family) to come together at lunar New Year's Eve / family reunion at New Year's
宦门 宦門 huàn mén family of officials / family with connections to the bureaucracy (i.e. the middle classes in imperial China)
家计 家計 jiā jì family livelihood / a household's economic situation / family property
故家 gù jiā old and respected family / family whose members have been officials from generation to generation
聘娶婚 pìn qǔ hūn formal betrothal (in which the boy's family sends presents to the girl's family)
飞鱼族 飛魚族 fēi yú zú "flying fish family", family who sacrifice everything to send their children abroad to study
鮨科 qí kē the grouper family / Serranidae (fish family including Epinephelinae or grouper 石斑魚|石斑鱼)
重组家庭 reorganized family / recomposed family
大家庭 dà jiā tíng extended family / big family / harmonious group
身家 shēn jiā oneself and one's family / family background / pedigree / one's property / one's total assets syn
家规 家規 jiā guī family rules / family code of conduct
辈分 輩分 bèi fen seniority in the family or clan / position in the family hierarchy / Taiwan pr. [bei4fen4] syn
来源 來源 lái yuán source (of information etc) / origin syn
原因 yuán yīn cause / origin / root cause / reason / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
出处 出處 chū chù source (esp. of quotation or literary allusion) / origin / where sth comes from syn
产地 產地 chǎn dì source (of a product) / place of origin / manufacturing location
人为 人為 rén wéi artificial / man-made / having human cause or origin / human attempt or effort syn
原地 yuán dì (in) the original place / the place where one currently is / place of origin / local (product)
起源 qǐ yuán origin / to originate / to come from syn
老家 lǎo jiā native place / place of origin / home state or region syn
来历 來歷 lái lì history / antecedents / origin syn
根源 gēn yuán origin / root (cause) syn
湿疣 濕疣 shī yóu condyloma (genital wart of viral origin) / Condyloma acuminatum
极点 極點 jí diǎn extreme point / pole / the origin (in polar coordinates) syn
原产地 原產地 yuán chǎn dì original source / place of origin / provenance
由来 由來 yóu lái origin syn
源泉 yuán quán fountainhead / well-spring / water source / fig. origin syn
渊源 淵源 yuān yuán origin / source / relationship syn
缘起 緣起 yuán qǐ to originate / origin / genesis / account of the origins of an endeavor syn
来路 來路 lái lù incoming road / origin / past history syn
发源地 發源地 fā yuán dì place of origin / birthplace / source syn
原点 原點 yuán diǎn starting point / square one / (coordinate geometry) origin
事由 shì yóu main content / matter / work / origin of an incident / cause / purpose / subject (of business letter) syn
本源 běn yuán origin / source syn
达尔文 達爾文 dá ěr wén Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British biologist, author of "On the Origin of Species" 物種起源|物种起源[Wu3zhong3 Qi3yuan2] / Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory (Australia)
同源 tóng yuán homology (biology) / a common origin
源流 yuán liú (of watercourses) source and course / origin and development syn
溯源 sù yuán to investigate the origin of sth / to trace a river upstream back to its source syn
一脉相承 一脈相承 yī mài xiāng chéng traceable to the same stock (idiom) / of a common origin (of trends, ideas etc)
běn (bound form) root / stem / (bound form) origin / source / (bound form) one's own / this / (bound form) this / the current (year etc) / (bound form) original / (bound form) inherent / originally / initially / capital / principal / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc syn
发端 發端 fā duān to originate / to initiate / beginning / origin syn
法源 fǎ yuán Origin of Dharma (in Buddhism) / source of the law
产地证 產地證 chǎn dì zhèng certificate of origin (CO or CoO) (commerce)
发轫 發軔 fā rèn to set (sth) afoot / to initiate / beginning / origin / commencement
寒微 hán wēi of humble origin syn
滥觞 濫觴 làn shāng lit. floating wine goblets on a stream / the origin (of some phenomenon) syn
词源 詞源 cí yuán etymology / origin of a word
策源地 cè yuán dì place of origin / source (of a war or a social movement) syn
mother / elderly female relative / origin / source / (of animals) female syn
yuán root / source / origin syn
追本溯源 zhuī běn sù yuán to trace sth back to its origin
duān old variant of 端[duan1] / start / origin syn
tāi fetus / classifier for litters (of puppies etc) / padding (in clothing or bedding) / womb carrying a fetus / (fig.) origin / source / (loanword) tire syn
zhào the start / the origin syn
(literary) small child / (literary) limit / bound / extremity / (literary) to differentiate / (literary) origin / cause
来历不明 來歷不明 lái lì bù míng (idiom) of unknown origin / of dubious background
生命起源 shēng mìng qǐ yuán origin
叁浦·梅园 三浦·梅園 SanpuMeiyuan MIURA Baien (1723-1789), Japanese neo-Confucian philosopher and pioneer economist, author of The Origin of value 價原|价原
人类起源 人類起源 rén lèi qǐ yuán origin of mankind
来路不明 來路不明 lái lù bù míng unidentified origin / no-one knows where it comes from / of dubious background syn
价原 價原 jià yuán Kagen or the Origin of Value by MIURA Baien 三浦梅園|三浦梅园[San1 pu3 Mei2 yuan2], pioneering study of economics comparable to Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations 國富論|国富论[Guo2 fu4 lun4]
原产国 原產國 yuán chǎn guó country of origin
同源词 同源詞 tóng yuán cí cognate / words having a common origin
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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