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 老爷爷 老爺爺 lǎo yé ye (coll.) father's father's father / paternal great-grandfather syn 曾祖父 zēng zǔ fù father's father's father / paternal great-grandfather syn 虎父无犬子 虎父無犬子 hǔ fù wú quǎn zǐ lit. father a lion, son cannot be a dog (honorific) / With a distinguished father such as you, the son is sure to do well. / like father, like son 老子英雄儿好汉，老子反动儿混蛋 老子英雄兒好漢，老子反動兒混蛋 lǎo zi yīng xióng ér hǎo hàn , lǎo zi fǎn dòng ér hún dàn If the father is a hero, the son is a real man. If the father is a reactionary, the son is a bastard. (Cultural Revolution slogan) / fig. like father, like son 婆婆 pó po husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma syn 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 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 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 父母 fù mǔ father and mother / parents syn 外公 wài gōng (coll.) mother's father / maternal grandfather syn 所生 suǒ shēng parents (father and mother) 祖母 zǔ mǔ father's mother / paternal grandmother syn 伯母 bó mǔ wife of father's elder brother / aunt / (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 二老 èr lǎo mother and father / parents syn 阿妈 阿媽 ā mā grandma (paternal) (Tw) / (dialect) mother / nurse / amah / (Manchu) father syn 外祖父 wài zǔ fù maternal grandfather (i.e. mother's father) syn 六亲 六親 liù qīn six close relatives, namely: father 父[fu4], mother 母[mu3], older brothers 兄[xiong1], younger brothers 弟[di4], wife 妻[qi1], male children 子[zi3] / one's kin syn 俄底浦斯 é dǐ pǔ sī Oedipus, legendary king of Thebes who killed his father and married his mother 严慈 嚴慈 yán cí strict and compassionate / strict as a father and tender as a mother 姑姥姥 gū lǎo lao mother's father's sister (coll.) / great aunt 姨奶奶 yí nǎi nai father's mother's sister (coll.) / great aunt 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 怙恃 hù shì to rely on / father and mother (classical) 老佛爷 老佛爺 lǎo fó yé title of respect for the queen mother or the emperor's father / nickname for Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4] syn 翁姑 wēng gū husband's father and mother 三族 sān zú (old) three generations (father, self and sons) / three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's) 老子 lǎo zi father / daddy / "I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt) / I (used arrogantly or jocularly) syn 大叔 dà shū eldest of father's younger brothers / uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father) syn 公公 gōng gong husband's father / father-in-law / grandpa / grandad / (old) form of address for a eunuch syn 祖父 zǔ fù father's father / paternal grandfather syn 岳父 yuè fù wife's father, father-in-law 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 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 养父 養父 yǎng fù foster father / adoptive father syn 国父 國父 guó fù father or founder of a nation / Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen) 老公公 lǎo gōng gong old man / husband's father / father-in-law / court eunuch syn 丈人 zhàng rén wife's father (father-in-law) / old man syn 先父 xiān fù deceased father / my late father syn 岳丈 yuè zhàng father-in-law (wife's father) syn 翁 wēng elderly man / father / father-in-law / neck feathers of a bird (old) syn 伯叔祖父 bó shū zǔ fù father's father's brother / great uncle 伯叔祖母 bó shū zǔ mǔ father's father's brother's wife / great aunt 祖姑母 zǔ gū mǔ father's father's sister / great aunt 亚父 亞父 yà fù (term of respect) second only to father / like a father (to me) 圣父 聖父 shèng fù Holy Father / God the Father (in the Christian Trinity) 阿爸父 ā bà fù Abba (Aramaic word father) / by ext. God the Father in Christian gospel 亲爸 親爸 qīn bà one's own father / biological father 家公 jiā gōng head of a family / (polite) my father / (polite) my grandfather / your esteemed father 翁婿 wēng xù father-in-law (wife's father) and son-in-law 老丈人 lǎo zhàng ren (coll.) father-in-law (wife's father) syn 外舅 wài jiù (literary) father-in-law / wife's father 妈妈 媽媽 mā ma mama / mommy / mother / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] syn 母亲 母親 mǔ qīn mother / also pr. [mu3 qin5] / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 大地 dà dì earth / mother earth syn 大方 dà fāng expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea syn 阿姨 ā yí maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 老妈 老媽 lǎo mā mother / mom 老太太 lǎo tài tai elderly lady (respectful) / esteemed mother / CL:位[wei4] syn 母亲节 母親節 mǔ qīn jié Mother's Day 母子 mǔ zǐ mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest 舅舅 jiù jiu mother's brother / maternal uncle (informal) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 老娘 lǎo niáng my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife syn 母猪 母豬 mǔ zhū sow / mother pig 母语 母語 mǔ yǔ native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language 母体 母體 mǔ tǐ (zoology, medicine) mother's body / (chemistry etc) parent / matrix / (statistics) population / parent population 姨妈 姨媽 yí mā (coll.) mother's sister / maternal aunt syn 阿婆 ā pó granny / mother-in-law syn 婆媳 pó xí mother-in-law and daughter-in-law 小姨 xiǎo yí mother's youngest sister / wife's younger sister / sister-in-law 慈母 cí mǔ warm, caring mother syn 贤妻良母 賢妻良母 xián qī liáng mǔ a good wife and loving mother 干妈 乾媽 gān mā adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) syn 西王母 xī wáng mǔ Xi Wangmu, Queen Mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality / popularly known as 王母娘娘 syn 舅父 jiù fù mother's brother / maternal uncle syn 家母 jiā mǔ (polite) my mother syn 代孕 dài yùn to serve as a surrogate mother / surrogacy 待产 待產 dài chǎn (of an expectant mother) to be in labor syn 马利亚 馬利亞 mǎ lì yà Maria (name) / Mary, mother of Jesus Christ 隔山 gé shān half-sibling relationship / brothers with different mother / step- 月嫂 yuè sǎo woman hired to take care of a newborn child and its mother in the month after childbirth 姨父 yí fu husband of mother's sister / uncle syn 