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"mother and son" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
子母 zǐ mǔ mother and son / interest and capital / combination of a large object and a smaller one of the same type
Chinese Pinyin Translation
孽子 niè zǐ unfilial son / unworthy son / illegitimate son / concubine's son
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
公子 gōng zǐ son of an official / son of nobility / your son (honorific) 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
母女 mǔ nǚ mother and daughter / mother-daughter
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
画荻教子 畫荻教子 huà dí jiào zǐ to write on the sand with reeds while teaching one's son (idiom) / mother's admirable dedication to her children's education
哀子 āi zǐ son orphaned of his mother
儿不嫌母丑，狗不嫌家贫 兒不嫌母醜，狗不嫌家貧 ér bù xián mǔ chǒu , gǒu bù xián jiā pín a son won't abandon his mother for being ugly, just as a dog won't abandon its owner for being poor (proverb)
少爷 少爺 shào ye son of the boss / young master of the house / your son (honorific) syn
孙子 孫子 sūn zi grandson / son's son syn
长孙 長孫 zhǎng sūn eldest grandson / the eldest son of one's eldest son
外甥 wài shēng sister's son / wife's sibling's son syn
养子 養子 yǎng zǐ adopted son / foster son syn
圣子 聖子 shèng zǐ Holy Son / Jesus Christ / God the Son (in the Christian Trinity)
小开 小開 xiǎo kāi (dialect) boss's son / rich man's son / young master 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
孙媳妇 孫媳婦 sūn xí fu son's son's wife / grandson's wife syn
孙媳夫 孫媳夫 sūn xí fu son's son's wife / grandson's wife
嫡子 dí zǐ son, esp. the eldest son, of the wife (contrasted with 庶子[shu4 zi3])
支子 zhī zǐ son of a concubine or son of the wife other than her first
孙媳妇 孫媳婦 sūn xí fù son's son's wife / grandson's wife syn
幼子 yòu zǐ youngest son / very young son syn
三纲五常 三綱五常 sān gāng wǔ cháng three principles and five virtues (idiom) / the three rules (ruler guides subject, father guides son and husband guides wife) and five constant virtues of Confucianism (benevolence 仁, righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom 智 and fidelity 信)
母子 mǔ zǐ mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest
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]
丘比特 qiū bǐ tè Cupid, son of Venus and Mars, Roman god of love and beauty
三从四德 三從四德 sān cóng sì dé Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality 德[de2], physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 syn
捡骨 撿骨 jiǎn gǔ bone-gathering, a custom of Fujian and Taiwan in which a son recovers the bones of his deceased father from the grave and places them in an urn for permanent storage at a different location
幽明 yōu míng the hidden and the visible / that which can be seen and that which cannot / darkness and light / night and day / wisdom and ignorance / evil and good / the living and the dead / men and ghosts
幽明 yōu - míng the hidden and the visible / that which can be seen and that which cannot / darkness and light / night and day / wisdom and ignorance / evil and good / the living and the dead / men and ghosts
父母 fù mǔ father and mother / parents syn
所生 suǒ shēng parents (father and mother)
二老 èr lǎo mother and father / parents syn
婆媳 pó xí mother-in-law and daughter-in-law
贤妻良母 賢妻良母 xián qī liáng mǔ a good wife and loving mother
月嫂 yuè sǎo woman hired to take care of a newborn child and its mother in the month after childbirth
她玛 她瑪 tā mǎ Tamir (mother of Perez and Zerah)
俄底浦斯 é dǐ pǔ sī Oedipus, legendary king of Thebes who killed his father and married his mother
嫪毐 lào ǎi Lao Ai (-238 BC), man of Qin famous for his giant penis / in fiction, bogus eunuch and the consort of king Ying Zheng's mother lady Zhao
怙恃 hù shì to rely on / father and mother (classical)
溶血病 róng xuè bìng hemolytic disease of newborn (breakdown of red blood cells due to alloimmune reaction between mother and fetus)
该亚 該亞 gāi yà Gaea, the Earth Goddess and mother of the Titans
翁姑 wēng gū husband's father and mother
珍珠母 zhēn zhū mǔ mother-of-pearl (used in ornamentation and in TCM)
马姆塔母子保健研究所 馬姆塔母子保健研究所 MAMTA - Health Institute for the Mother and Child
气候变化和地球母亲权利世界人民大会 氣候變化和地球母親權利世界人民大會 World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
母子保健论坛 母子保健論壇 Mother and Child Health Forum
母子健康周 Mother and Child Health Week
国际母婴组织 國際母嬰組織 Mother and Child International
亚洲母婴运动 亞洲母嬰運動 Asian Mother and Baby Campaign
倪桂珍 ní guì zhēn Ni Guizhen or Ni Kwei-Tseng (1869 - 1931), mother of Song Ailing 宋藹齡|宋蔼龄[Song4 Ai3 ling2], Song Qingling 宋慶齡|宋庆龄[Song4 Qing4 ling2] and Song Meiling 宋美齡|宋美龄[Song4 Mei3 ling2]
三族 sān zú (old) three generations (father, self and sons) / three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's)
孝圣宪 孝聖憲 xiào shèng xiàn Empress Xiaoshengxian (1693-1777), consort of Emperor Yongzheng 雍正[Yong1 zheng4] and mother of Emperor Qianlong 乾隆[Qian2 long2]
端起碗吃肉，放下筷子骂娘 端起碗吃肉，放下筷子罵娘 duān qǐ wǎn chī ròu , fàng xià kuài zi mà niáng lit. to eat meat from one's bowl, then put down one's chopsticks and scold one's mother (idiom) / fig. to complain despite being privileged / to be ungrateful for what one has been given
娘俩 娘倆 niáng liǎ (coll.) mother and her child
父子 fù zǐ father and son syn
周公 zhōu gōng Duke of Zhou (11th c. BC), son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王[Zhou1 Wen2 wang2], played an important role as regent in founding the Western Zhou 西周[Xi1 Zhou1], and is also known as the "God of Dreams"
饕餮 tāo tiè ferocious mythological animal, the fifth son of the dragon king / zoomorphic mask motif, found on Shang and Zhou ritual bronzes / gluttonous / sumptuous (banquet) syn
张学良 張學良 zhāng xué liáng Zhang Xueliang (1901-2001) son of Fengtian clique warlord, then senior general for the Nationalists and subsequently for the People's Liberation Army
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
阿斗 ā dǒu A-dou, nickname of Liu Shan 劉禪|刘禅[Liu2 Shan4] (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263 / (fig.) weak and inept person syn
曹植 cáo zhí Cao Zhi (192-232), son of Cao Cao 曹操, noted poet and calligrapher
阿喀琉斯 ā kā liú sī Achilles (or Akhilleus or Achilleus), son of Thetis and Peleus, Greek hero central to the Iliad
寝苫枕块 寢苫枕塊 qǐn shān zhěn kuài bed of straw and pillow of clay (idiom) / the correct etiquette for a filial son during the mourning period
封妻荫子 封妻蔭子 fēng qī yìn zǐ to bestow a title on the wife of a deserving official and make his son heir to his titles syn
父慈子孝 fù cí zǐ xiào benevolent father, filial son (idiom) / natural love between parents and children
阿奇里斯 ā qí lǐ sī Achilles (or Akhilleus or Achilleus), son of Thetis and Peleus, Greek hero central to the Iliad
拉那烈 lā nà liè Prince Norodom Ranariddh (1944-), Cambodian politician and son of former King Sihanouk of Cambodia
波阿斯 bō ā sī Boaz (son of Salmon and Rahab)
俄备得 俄備得 é bèi dé Obed (son of Boaz and Ruth)
马但 馬但 mǎ dàn Matthan, son of Eleazar and father of Jakob in Matthew 1.15
撒督 sǎ dū Zadok (son of Azor and father of Achim in Matthew 1:13)
亚所 亞所 yà suǒ Azor (son of Eliakim and father of Zadok in Matthew 1:13-14)
以利亚敬 以利亞敬 yǐ lì yà jìng Eliakim (name, Hebrew: God will raise up) / Eliakim, servant of the Lord in Isaiah 22:20 / Eliakim, son of Abiud and father of Azor in Matthew 1:13
人各有所好 rén gè yǒu suǒ hào everyone has their likes and dislikes / there is no accounting for taste / chacun son goût
奕䜣 奕訢 yì xīn Grand Prince Yixin (1833-1898), sixth son of Emperor Daoguang, prominent politician, diplomat and modernizer in late Qing
恭亲王奕䜣 恭親王奕訢 gōng qīn wáng yì xīn Grand Prince Yixin (1833-1898), sixth son of Emperor Daoguang, prominent politician, diplomat and modernizer in late Qing
拉法格 lā fǎ gé Lafargue (name) / Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), French socialist and revolutionary activist, son-in-law of Karl Marx
李建成 lǐ jiàn chéng Li Jiancheng (589-626), eldest son of first Tang emperor Li Yuan 唐高祖李淵|唐高祖李渊, murdered by his brother 李世民 in the Xuanwu Gate coup 玄武門之變|玄武门之变 / Professor Li Jiancheng (1964-), geophysicist and specialist in satellite geodesy
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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