做 zuò to make / to produce / to write / to compose / to do / to engage in / to hold (a party etc) / (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc) / to become (husband and wife, friends etc) / (of a thing) to serve as / to be used for / to assume (an air or manner) syn 先生 xiān sheng teacher / gentleman / sir / mister (Mr.) / husband / (dialect) doctor / CL:位[wei4] syn 丈夫 zhàng fu husband syn 夫 fū husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old) syn 夫妇 夫婦 fū fù a (married) couple / husband and wife / CL:對|对[dui4] syn 老头 老頭 lǎo tóu old fellow / old man / father / husband syn 夫妻 fū qī husband and wife / married couple syn 一家 yī jiā the whole family / the same family / the family ... (when preceded by a family name) / group 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 前夫 qián fū former husband 家属 家屬 jiā shǔ family member / (family) dependent syn 老头子 老頭子 lǎo tóu zi (coll.) old man / (said of an aging husband) my old man syn 皇室 huáng shì royal family / imperial household / member of the royal family syn 婆婆 pó po husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma syn 分居 fēn jū to separate (married couple) / to live apart (of husband and wife, family members) 女婿 nǚ xù daughter's husband / son-in-law syn 养家 養家 yǎng jiā to support a family / to raise a family 口子 kǒu zi hole / opening / cut / gap / gash / my husband or wife / classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc) / precedent syn 汉子 漢子 hàn zi man / fellow / (dialect) husband syn 姐夫 jiě fu (coll.) older sister's husband syn 门户 門戶 mén hù door / strategic gateway / portal / faction / sect / family status / family / web portal / (old) brothel syn 嫁人 jià rén (of a woman) to get married / to take a husband syn 世家 shì jiā family influential for generations / aristocratic family syn 公公 gōng gong husband's father / father-in-law / grandpa / grandad / (old) form of address for a eunuch syn 妹夫 mèi fu younger sister's husband syn 老伴 lǎo bàn (of an elderly couple) husband or wife syn 夫君 fū jūn (honorific) husband syn 改口 gǎi kǒu to change one's tune / to modify one's previous remark / to change the way one addresses sb (as when one marries and starts to call one's husband's parents 爸爸[ba4 ba5] and 媽媽|妈妈[ma1 ma5]) syn 男方 nán fāng (of a marriage) the bridegroom's side / the husband's side 家境 jiā jìng family financial situation / family circumstances syn 两口子 兩口子 liǎng kǒu zi husband and wife syn 姨父 yí fu husband of mother's sister / uncle syn 郎君 láng jūn my husband and master (archaic) / playboy of rich family / pimp syn 老公公 lǎo gōng gong old man / husband's father / father-in-law / court eunuch syn 眷属 眷屬 juàn shǔ family member / husband and wife syn 大伯 dà bó husband's older brother / father's older brother (esp. his oldest brother) syn 姑父 gū fu father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle syn 姨丈 yí zhàng mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister syn 公婆 gōng pó husband's parents / parents-in-law syn 姑爷 姑爺 gū ye son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister) syn 大户 大戶 dà hù great family / rich family / large landlord / conspicuous spender or consumer syn 贵贱 貴賤 guì jiàn noble and lowly / high versus low social hierarchy of ruler to people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism 小姑 xiǎo gū father's youngest sister / husband's younger sister / sister-in-law 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 家私 jiā sī family property / family wealth syn 夫婿 fū xù (literary) husband syn 伉俪 伉儷 kàng lì husband and wife (literary) syn 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 天伦 天倫 tiān lún family bonds / ethical family relations syn 叔公 shū gōng great uncle / grandfather's younger brother / husband's father's younger brother syn 姨夫 yí fu mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister syn 相公 xiàng gong lord / master / young gentleman / male prostitute / catamite / mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes / (old form of address for one's husband) husband syn 良家 liáng jiā respectable family / decent family 辈分 輩分 bèi fèn seniority in the family or clan / position in the family hierarchy syn 大姑 dà gū father's oldest sister / husband's older sister / sister-in-law syn 烈女 liè nǚ a woman who dies fighting for her honor or follows her husband in death syn 姊夫 zǐ fu older sister's husband syn 合葬 hé zàng to bury husband and wife together / joint interment 良人 liáng rén husband (arch.) 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 人家 rén jiā household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL:戶|户[hu4],家[jia1] syn 老公 lǎo gōng (coll.) husband syn 进门 進門 jìn mén to enter a door / to go in / to learn the basics of a subject / to join one's husband's household upon marriage 女婿 nǚ xu daughter's husband / son-in-law syn 双飞 雙飛 shuāng fēi flying in pairs / close union as husband and wife / round-trip flight / (slang) threesome 老儿 老兒 lǎo ér father / husband / old man 家传 家傳 jiā chuán handed down in a family / family traditions syn 小叔 xiǎo shū husband's younger brother / brother-in-law 寒门 寒門 hán mén poor and humble family / my family (humble) syn 相夫教子 xiàng fū jiào zǐ to assist one's husband and educate the children (idiom) / the traditional roles of a good wife 柴门 柴門 chái mén lit. woodcutter's family / humble background / poor family background syn 糟糠 zāo kāng chaff, husks, distillers' dregs etc (food eaten by the poor) / (fig.) rubbish / junk / (abbr. for 糟糠妻[zao1 kang1 qi1]) wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband syn 鸾凤 鸞鳳 luán fèng luan and phoenix / husband and wife / virtuous person / sovereign / belle syn 门风 門風 mén fēng family tradition / family principles syn 姑丈 gū zhàng husband of paternal aunt syn 表姐夫 biǎo jiě fu husband of older female cousin via female line 房 fáng house / room / CL:間|间[jian1] / branch of an extended family / classifier for family members (or concubines) syn 姑 gū paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary) syn 叔 shū uncle / father's younger brother / husband's younger brother / Taiwan pr. [shu2] syn 丈 zhàng measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male syn 一家人 yī jiā rén the whole family / members of the same family (lit. or fig.) 婿 xù son-in-law / husband syn 姑夫 gū fu father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle 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 俪 儷 lì husband and wife syn 双职工 雙職工 shuāng zhí gōng working couple (husband and wife both employed) 外子 wài zǐ (polite) my husband 五伦 五倫 wǔ lún the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend) syn 孙女婿 孫女婿 sūn nǚ xu son's daughter's husband / granddaughter's husband syn 殉节 殉節 xùn jié to sacrifice one's life by loyalty (to one's prince, one's husband etc) syn 侄女婿 姪女婿 zhí nǚ xu brother's daughter's husband / niece's husband syn 嫜 zhāng husband's father 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 大家 dà jiā everyone / influential family / great expert syn 老 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough / unicode compatibility variant of 老 syn 门 門 mén gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal / derived from Watergate) syn 家庭 jiā tíng family / household / CL:戶|户[hu4],個|个[ge4] syn 家人 jiā rén family member / (old) servant syn 