小姑 xiǎo gū father's youngest sister / husband's younger sister / sister-in-law syn 大姑 dà gū father's oldest sister / husband's older sister / sister-in-law syn 大姐 dà jiě big sister / elder sister / older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker) syn 小姨 xiǎo yí mother's youngest sister / wife's younger sister / sister-in-law 姑婆 gū pó grandfather's sister / sister of a woman's father-in-law syn 表叔 biǎo shū son of grandfather's sister / son of grandmother's brother or sister / father's younger male cousin / (Hong Kong slang) mainlander 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 祖姑母 zǔ gū mǔ father's father's sister / great aunt 堂姊妹 táng zǐ mèi father's brother's daughters / paternal female cousin 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 大嫂 dà sǎo older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) syn 嫂嫂 sǎo sao older brother's wife / sister-in-law / (polite address to a younger married woman) sister syn 小姨子 xiǎo yí zi (coll.) wife's younger sister / sister-in-law (term not used to directly address her) 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 姨妹 yí mèi wife's younger sister / sister-in-law 姨姐 yí jiě wife's elder sister / sister-in-law 大姨子 dà yí zi sister-in-law / wife's older sister syn 小姑子 xiǎo gū zi (coll.) husband's younger sister / sister-in-law syn 姑妈 姑媽 gū mā (coll.) father's married sister / paternal aunt syn 姑爷 姑爺 gū ye son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister) syn 姑父 gū fu father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle syn 姑母 gū mǔ father's sister / paternal aunt syn 姑夫 gū fu father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle syn 姑姥姥 gū lǎo lao mother's father's sister (coll.) / great aunt 姑爹 gū diē husband of father's sister / uncle 姨奶奶 yí nǎi nai father's mother's sister (coll.) / great aunt 同父异母 同父異母 tóng fù yì mǔ (of siblings) having the same father but different mothers / half (brother or sister) 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 尼厄丽德 尼厄麗德 ní è lì dé Nereids (Greek sea nymphs, fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris) / Nereid, moon of Neptune 赔钱货 賠錢貨 péi qián huò unprofitable goods / item that can only be sold at a loss / daughter (so called in former times because daughters required a dowry when they married) 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 老奶奶 lǎo nǎi nai (coll.) father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother / respectful form of address for an old woman syn 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 曾祖母 zēng zǔ mǔ father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother 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 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 姐姐 jiě jie older sister / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 妹妹 mèi mei younger sister / young woman / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 姐妹 jiě mèi sisters / siblings / sister (school, city etc) syn 小妹 xiǎo mèi little sister / girl / (Tw) young female employee working in a low-level role dealing with the public (assistant, waitress, attendant etc) 姊妹 zǐ mèi (older and younger) sisters / sister (school, city etc) syn 兄妹 xiōng mèi brother(s) and sister(s) 姊姊 zǐ zǐ older sister / Taiwan pr. [jie3 jie5] 嫂子 sǎo zi (coll.) older brother's wife / sister-in-law syn 小妹妹 xiǎo mèi mei little sister / little girl / (coll.) vulva 妹子 mèi zi (dialect) younger sister / girl syn 姐夫 jiě fu (coll.) older sister's husband syn 修女 xiū nǚ nun or sister (of the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox churches) 姨妈 姨媽 yí mā (coll.) mother's sister / maternal aunt syn 外甥 wài shēng sister's son / wife's sibling's son syn 阿妹 ā mèi younger sister syn 家 jiā home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 妹夫 mèi fu younger sister's husband syn 外甥女 wài sheng nǚ sister's daughter / wife's sibling's daughter syn 弟媳 dì xí younger brother's wife / sister-in-law 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 姊夫 zǐ fu older sister's husband syn 姨父 yí fu husband of mother's sister / uncle 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) 姨母 yí mǔ mother's sister / maternal aunt syn 弟妇 弟婦 dì fù younger brother's wife / sister-in-law syn 姐 jiě older sister syn 姑 gū paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary) syn 妹 mèi younger sister syn 嫂 sǎo (bound form) older brother's wife / sister-in-law syn 姊 zǐ older sister / Taiwan pr. [jie3] syn 姨 yí mother's sister / aunt syn 甥 shēng (bound form) sister's son / nephew syn 娲 媧 wā surname Wa / sister of legendary emperor Fuxi 伏羲[Fu2xi1] 姒 sì wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old) 襟弟 jīn dì husband of wife's younger sister 襟兄 jīn xiōng husband of wife's older sister 舅嫂 jiù sǎo wife's brother's wife, sister-in-law 甥女 shēng nǚ sister's daughter / niece syn 