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 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 小姨 xiǎo yí mother's youngest sister / wife's younger sister / sister-in-law 姑 gū paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary) 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 小姑子 xiǎo gū zi (coll.) husband's younger sister / sister-in-law syn 姑父 gū fu father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle syn 姑夫 gū fu father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle syn 姨父 yí fu husband of mother's sister / uncle 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 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) 姨姥姥 yí lǎo lao mother's mother's sister / great-aunt 婆婆 pó po husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma syn 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) 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 姐夫 jiě fu (coll.) older sister's husband syn 妹夫 mèi fu younger sister's husband syn 姑爷 姑爺 gū ye son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister) syn 姊夫 zǐ fu older sister's husband syn 襟弟 jīn dì husband of wife's younger sister 襟兄 jīn xiōng husband of wife's older sister 外甥女婿 wài sheng nǚ xù sister's daughter's husband 姊丈 zǐ zhàng older sister's husband 姑爹 gū diē husband of father's sister / uncle 姐丈 jiě zhàng older sister's husband / brother-in-law 姑子 gū zi husband's sister / (coll.) Buddhist nun syn 外甥女婿 wài sheng nǚ xu sister's daughter's husband 妹婿 mèi xù brother-in-law (younger sister's husband) syn 姨妈 姨媽 yí mā (coll.) mother's sister / maternal aunt syn 姨母 yí mǔ mother's sister / maternal aunt syn 姨 yí mother's sister / aunt syn 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 同母异父 同母異父 tóng mǔ yì fù (of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers / half (brother or sister) 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 孙女婿 孫女婿 sūn nǚ xù son's daughter's husband / granddaughter's husband syn 孙女婿 孫女婿 sūn nǚ xu 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 侄女婿 姪女婿 zhí nǚ xu brother's daughter's husband / niece's husband syn 叔婆 shū pó aunt by marriage / husband's aunt / husband's father's younger brother's wife syn 公婆 gōng - pó husband's parents / parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple / husband and wife syn 翁姑 wēng gū husband's father and mother 家娘 jiā niáng (dialect) husband's mother 阿家 ā gū husband's mother 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 外祖母 wài zǔ mǔ mother's mother / maternal grandmother syn 丈母 zhàng mǔ wife's mother / mother-in-law syn 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 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 修女 xiū nǚ nun or sister (of the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox churches) 外甥 wài shēng sister's son / wife's sibling's son syn 姑妈 姑媽 gū mā (coll.) father's married sister / paternal aunt syn 阿妹 ā mèi younger 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 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 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 姑母 gū mǔ father's sister / paternal aunt syn 弟妇 弟婦 dì fù younger brother's wife / sister-in-law syn 姐 jiě older sister 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 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) 表姊妹 biǎo zǐ mèi father's sister's daughters / maternal female cousin 舅嫂 jiù sǎo wife's brother's wife, sister-in-law 甥女 shēng nǚ sister's daughter / niece syn 外甥媳妇 外甥媳婦 wài sheng xí fù sister's son's wife 嬃 xū elder sister 姨甥男女 yí sheng nán nǚ wife's sister's children 幼妹 yòu mèi younger sister 