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"mother and daughter" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
母女 mǔ nǚ mother and daughter / mother-daughter
Chinese Pinyin Translation
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
大小姐 dà xiǎo jie eldest daughter of an affluent family / (polite) your daughter / bossy or indulged young woman / Miss High and Mighty
外甥女 wài sheng nǚ sister's daughter / wife's sibling's daughter syn
外孙女 外孫女 wài sūn nǚ daughter's daughter / granddaughter
外孙女儿 外孫女兒 wài sūn nǚ r granddaughter (one's daughter's daughter)
望女成凤 望女成鳳 wàng nǚ chéng fèng lit. to hope one's daughter becomes a phoenix (idiom) / fig. to hope one's daughter is a success in life
婆媳 pó xí mother-in-law and daughter-in-law
媳妇熬成婆 媳婦熬成婆 xí fù áo chéng pó lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom) / fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor / what goes around comes around
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
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
母子 mǔ zǐ mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest
子母 zǐ mǔ mother and son / interest and capital / combination of a large object and a smaller one of the same type
千金 qiān jīn thousand jin 斤 (pounds) of gold / money and riches / (honorific) invaluable (support) / (honorific) daughter syn
父女 fù nǚ father and daughter
比亚 比亞 bǐ yà Bia, daughter of Pallas and Styx in Greek mythology, personification of violence
扒灰 pá huī incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law
爬灰 pá huī incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law / also written 扒灰
贝·布托 貝·佈托 BeiButuo Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda
贝・布托 貝・佈托 bèi · bù tuō Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda
贝娜齐尔・布托 貝娜齊爾・布托 bèi nà qí ěr · bù tuō Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda
严慈 嚴慈 yán cí strict and compassionate / strict as a father and tender as a mother
耶洗别 耶洗別 yē xǐ bié Jezebel, wife of Ahab and mother of Ahaziah, major character in 1 Kings 16:31, 19:1, 21 and 2 Kings 9, killed by Jehu 耶戶|耶户[Ye1 hu4]
女儿 女兒 nǚ ér daughter syn
姑娘 gū niang girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
媳妇 媳婦 xí fù daughter-in-law / wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation syn
女婿 nǚ xù daughter's husband / son-in-law syn
女婿 nǚ xu daughter's husband / son-in-law syn
师姐 師姐 shī jiě senior female fellow student or apprentice / daughter (older than oneself) of one's teacher
玉女 yù nǚ beautiful woman / fairy maiden attending the Daoist immortals / (polite) sb else's daughter / Chinese dodder (Cuscuta chinensis), plant whose seeds are used for TCM syn
师妹 師妹 shī mèi junior female student or apprentice / daughter (younger than oneself) of one's teacher
孙女 孫女 sūn nǚ son's daughter / granddaughter
侄女 姪女 zhí nǚ brother's daughter / niece syn
小女 xiǎo nǚ my daughter (humble)
闺女 閨女 guī nu: maiden / unmarried woman / daughter syn
闺女 閨女 guī nǚ maiden / unmarried woman / daughter syn
儿媳 兒媳 ér xí daughter-in-law syn
亲家 親家 qìng jia parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law / relatives by marriage syn
儿媳妇 兒媳婦 ér xí fu daughter-in-law syn
养女 養女 yǎng nǚ adopted daughter 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
外孙 外孫 wài sūn daughter's son / grandson / descendant via the female line syn
长女 長女 zhǎng nǚ eldest daughter
掌上明珠 zhǎng shàng míng zhū lit. a pearl in the palm (idiom) / fig. beloved person (esp. daughter) syn
独生女 獨生女 dú shēng nǚ a daughter who is an only child syn
娶媳妇 娶媳婦 qǔ xí fù to get oneself a wife / to take a daughter-in-law
小家碧玉 xiǎo jiā bì yù pretty daughter in a humble family syn
孝道 xiào dao filial piety (Confucian virtue) / to be a good son or daughter syn
精卫 精衛 jīng wèi mythological bird, reincarnation of drowned daughter Nüwa 女娃[Nu:3 wa2] of Fiery Emperor 炎帝[Yan2 di4]
义女 義女 yì nǚ adopted daughter syn
女 nǚ female / woman / daughter syn
新妇 新婦 xīn fù bride / (dialect) daughter-in-law syn
童养媳 童養媳 tóng yǎng xí child bride / girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law
令爱 令愛 lìng ài (courteous) your daughter syn
次女 cì nǚ second daughter
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
妻 qì to marry off (a daughter) syn
嫁 jià (of a woman) to marry / to marry off a daughter / to shift (blame etc) syn
媳 xí daughter-in-law syn
囡 nān child / daughter syn
大家闺秀 大家閨秀 dà jiā guī xiù girl from a wealthy family / unmarried daughter of a noble house
白晓燕 白曉燕 bái xiǎo yàn Pai Hsiao-yen (daughter of Pai Ping-ping)
甥女 shēng nǚ sister's daughter / niece syn
孙女儿 孫女兒 sūn nǚ r granddaughter (son's daughter)
外甥女婿 wài sheng nǚ xù sister's daughter's husband
子细胞 子細胞 zǐ xì bāo daughter cell
女公子 nǚ gōng zǐ noble lady / (honorific) your daughter syn
嫁女 jià nǚ to marry off a daughter
玉人吹箫 玉人吹簫 yù rén chuī xiāo virtuoso piper wins a beauty / the xiao 簫|箫[xiao1] (mouth organ) virtuoso 蕭史|萧史[Xiao1 Shi3] won for his wife the beautiful daughter of Duke Mu of Qin 秦穆公[Qin2 Mu4 gong1]
童养媳妇 童養媳婦 tóng yǎng xí fù child bride / girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law
许婚 許婚 xǔ hūn to become engaged / to affiance (a daughter)
朴槿惠 樸槿惠 piáo jǐn huì Park Geun-hye (1952-), Korean politician, daughter of former dictator Park Chung-Hee 朴正熙[Piao2 Zheng4 xi1], president of Korea 2013-2017
外孙子 外孫子 wài sūn zi (coll.) daughter's son / grandson syn
表侄女 表姪女 biǎo zhí nǚ daughter of a male cousin via female line syn
干女儿 乾女兒 gān nǚ ér adopted daughter (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
寄女 jì nǚ foster daughter
改口费 改口費 gǎi kǒu fèi a gift of money given by parents on both sides after a wedding, to their new daughter-in-law or son-in-law
犹子 猶子 yóu zǐ (old) brother's son or daughter / nephew
外甥女婿 wài sheng nǚ xu sister's daughter's husband
丑媳妇早晚也得见公婆 醜媳婦早晚也得見公婆 chǒu xí fù zǎo wǎn yě děi jiàn gōng pó lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (idiom) / fig. it's not something you can avoid forever
皇帝女儿不愁嫁 皇帝女兒不愁嫁 huáng dì nǚ ér bù chóu jià lit. the emperor's daughter does not worry about whether she will be able to marry (idiom) / fig. highly sought after
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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