结婚 結婚 jié hūn to marry / to get married / CL:次[ci4] syn 夫妇 夫婦 fū fù a (married) couple / husband and wife / CL:對|对[dui4] syn 太太 tài tai married woman / Mrs. / Madam / wife / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] syn 鸳鸯 鴛鴦 yuān yāng (bird species of China) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) / (fig.) affectionate couple / happily married couple syn 小两口 小兩口 xiǎo liǎng kǒu (coll.) young married couple syn 结婚生子 結婚生子 jié hūn shēng zǐ to get married and have kids / to start a family 情夫 qíng fū married woman's lover syn 小媳妇 小媳婦 xiǎo xí fu young married woman / mistress / (fig.) punching bag / (old) child bride 喜结连理 喜結連理 xǐ jié lián lǐ to tie the knot (idiom) / to get married syn 女大不中留 nǚ dà bù zhōng liú when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom) 夫妻 fū qī husband and wife / married couple syn 出门 出門 chū mén to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married syn 少妇 少婦 shào fù young married woman syn 亲情 親情 qīn qíng affection / family love / love, esp. within a married couple or between parents and children syn 妇人 婦人 fù rén married woman syn 情妇 情婦 qíng fù mistress / paramour (of married man) syn 大嫂 dà sǎo older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) syn 嫁人 jià rén (of a woman) to get married / to take a husband syn 出嫁 chū jià to get married (of woman) syn 成亲 成親 chéng qīn to get married syn 娘家 niáng jia married woman's parents' home syn 成家 chéng jiā to settle down and get married (of a man) / to become a recognized expert syn 分居 fēn jū to separate (married couple) / to live apart (of husband and wife, family members) 成婚 chéng hūn to get married syn 娶妻 qǔ qī to take a wife / to get married (man) 姑妈 姑媽 gū mā (coll.) father's married sister / paternal aunt syn 同房 tóng fáng (of a married couple) to have intercourse / (literary) to share the same room / of the same family branch syn 嫂嫂 sǎo sao older brother's wife / sister-in-law / (polite address to a younger married woman) sister 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 薛宝钗 薛寶釵 xuē bǎo chāi Xue Baochai, female character in Dream of Red Mansions, married to Jia Baoyu 賈寶玉|贾宝玉 成家立业 成家立業 chéng jiā lì yè to get married and start a career (idiom) / to settle down / to establish oneself syn 佳偶 jiā ǒu happily married couple 婚龄 婚齡 hūn líng length of married life / marriageable age / actual marrying age 婆姨 pó yí (dialect) wife / married woman syn 并蒂莲 並蒂蓮 bìng dì lián lit. twin lotus flowers on one stalk / fig. a devoted married couple syn 归宁 歸寧 guī níng (literary) (of a married woman) to visit one's parents 外心 wài xīn (of a married person) interest in a third person / (old) (of a minister etc) disloyal disposition / (math.) circumcenter (of a polygon) syn 聘 pìn to employ / to appoint / (bound form) to betroth / (coll.) (of a woman) to get married / to be marrried off / (literary) to visit another state as an envoy on a diplomatic mission / Taiwan pr. [ping4] syn 不安其室 bù ān qí shì (idiom) (of a married woman) to be unfaithful / to have extramarital affairs 伉俪情深 伉儷情深 kàng lì qíng shēn married couple very much in love / deep conjugal love 鸾飘凤泊 鸞飄鳳泊 luán piāo fèng bó lit. firebird soars, phoenix alights (idiom) / fig. bold, graceful calligraphy / married couple separated from each other / talented person not given the opportunity to fulfill his potential syn 同床共枕 tóng chuáng gòng zhěn to share the bed / (fig.) to be married 开房间 開房間 kāi fáng jiān to rent a room in a hotel / (of two people who are not married to each other) to rent a room for sex 跟从 跟從 gēn cóng to follow / (of a woman) to get married / (old) attendant 老两口儿 老兩口兒 lǎo liǎng kǒu r an old married couple 小蜜 xiǎo mì (derog.) girlfriend of a married man 闪婚 閃婚 shǎn hūn to get married soon after meeting (abbr. for 閃電結婚|闪电结婚[shan3 dian4 jie2 hun1]) (neologism c. 2005) 作合 zuò hé to make a match / to get married 俄底浦斯 é dǐ pǔ sī Oedipus, legendary king of Thebes who killed his father and married his mother 匹偶 pǐ ǒu a married couple 合卺 合巹 hé jǐn to share nuptial cup / (fig.) to get married 娘家姓 niáng jia xìng maiden name (of married woman) 守空房 shǒu kōng fáng to stay home alone (of married woman) 小媳妇儿 小媳婦兒 xiǎo xí fu r young married woman / scapegoat / young girl engaged to sb by her parents (idiom) 卺饮 巹飲 jǐn yǐn to share nuptial cup / fig. to get married 新婚夫妇 新婚夫婦 xīn hūn fū fù newly married couple / newlyweds 未娶妻 wèi qǔ qī not yet married / bachelor 独立门户 獨立門戶 dú lì mén hù to live apart from parents (of married couple) / to achieve independence 眷区 眷區 juàn qū married quarters / residential quarters for men with families 连卺 連巹 lián jǐn to share nuptial cup / (fig.) to get married 适婚期 適婚期 shì hūn qī age range suitable for getting married 闪电式结婚 閃電式結婚 shǎn diàn shì jié hūn lightning wedding / to get married on the spur of the moment / abbr. to 閃婚|闪婚 双独夫妇 雙獨夫婦 shuāng dú fū fù a married couple allowed dispensation to have second child 养汉 養漢 yǎng hàn to commit adultery (of married woman) 已婚妇女国籍公约 已婚婦女國籍公約 Convention on the Nationality of Married Women 已婚者 ever married 有夫之妇 有夫之婦 yǒu fū zhī fù married woman 俪影 儷影 lì yǐng photo of a (married) couple 夫妻相 fū qī xiàng similarity in features of an old couple / common facial traits that show predestination to be married together 师奶 師奶 shī nǎi married woman of mature age 成家立室 chéng jiā lì shì to get married (idiom) 私定终身 私定終身 sī dìng zhōng shēng to make a pledge to be married, without parents' approval 空嫂 kōng sǎo married stewardess of mature age 急婚族 jí hūn zú (coll.) those who are in a rush to get married 独守空房 獨守空房 dú shǒu kōng fáng (of a married woman) to stay home alone 毕婚 畢婚 bì hūn to get married right after graduation 单身汪 單身汪 dān shēn wāng (Internet slang) person who is neither married nor in a relationship (used self-deprecatingly) 单身狗 單身狗 dān shēn gǒu (Internet slang) person who is neither married nor in a relationship (used self-deprecatingly) 有妇之夫 有婦之夫 yǒu fù zhī fū married man 敦伦 敦倫 dūn lún to strengthen moral ties between people / to have sexual intercourse (of a married couple) 恐婚 kǒng hūn to have an aversion to getting married 闪电结婚 閃電結婚 shǎn diàn jié hūn to get married soon after meeting 催婚 cuī hūn to urge sb (typically, one's adult child or nephew etc) to get married 已婚已育 yǐ hūn yǐ yù married, with one or more children 人夫 rén fū married man / husband (as a social role) syn 人妻 rén qī married woman / wife (as a social role) 老两口 老兩口 lǎo liǎng kǒu old married couple syn 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) 初婚 chū hūn to marry for the first time / to be newly married 喜结良缘 喜結良緣 xǐ jié - liáng yuán (idiom) to get happily married / to form an auspicious union syn 大婚 dà hūn to have a grand wedding / to get married in lavish style 婚驴 婚驢 hūn lǘ (derog.) (slang) married woman (term used by some feminists to imply that by marrying, women make themselves subservient to the patriarchal order) 媳妇 媳婦 xí fu (dialect) wife / (dialect) young married woman syn 恨嫁 hèn jià (of a woman) to yearn to get married 新婚燕尔 新婚燕爾 xīn hūn - yàn ěr (idiom) to experience the joy of being newly married syn 私定终身 私定終身 sī dìng zhōng shēn to make a pledge to be married, without parents' approval 隐婚 隱婚 yǐn hūn to be married but keep it secret from family, colleagues or the general public 偷人 tōu rén (of a married woman) to cheat on her husband / to have an affair syn 