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"sisters-in-law (old)" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
法 灋 fǎ old variant of 法[fa3] / law syn
姐妹 jiě mèi sisters / siblings / sister (school, city etc) syn
执法 執法 zhí fǎ to enforce a law / law enforcement
定律 dìng lǜ scientific law (e.g. law of conservation of energy) / (in human affairs) a generalization based on observation (e.g. "power corrupts") syn
老娘 lǎo niáng my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife syn
姊妹 zǐ mèi (older and younger) sisters / sister (school, city etc) syn
严刑 嚴刑 yán xíng strict law / cruel punishment / to carry out cruel law rigorously syn
公公 gōng gong husband's father / father-in-law / grandpa / grandad / (old) form of address for a eunuch syn
老牌 lǎo pái old, well-known brand / old style / old school / an old hand / experienced veteran syn
起诉书 起訴書 qǐ sù shū indictment (law) / statement of charges (law) syn
旧账 舊賬 jiù zhàng lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
亲家 親家 qìng jia parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law / relatives by marriage syn
老公公 lǎo gōng gong old man / husband's father / father-in-law / court eunuch syn
王法 wáng fǎ the law / the law of the land / the law of a state (in former times) / criterion syn
以身试法 以身試法 yǐ shēn shì fǎ to challenge the law (idiom) / to knowingly violate the law syn
护法 護法 hù fǎ to keep the law / to protect Buddha's teachings / protector of Buddhist law (i.e. temple donor)
法治 fǎ zhì rule of law / to rule by law syn
念旧 念舊 niàn jiù to remember old friends / to cherish old friendships / for old time's sake syn
贪赃枉法 貪贓枉法 tān zāng wǎng fǎ corruption and abuse of the law (idiom) / to take bribes and bend the law syn
天道 tiān dào natural law / heavenly law / weather (dialect) syn
公司法 gōng sī fǎ corporations law / company law / corporate law
结拜 結拜 jié bài to become sworn brothers or sisters / sworn (brothers) syn
妯娌 zhóu li wives of brothers / sisters-in-law
习惯法 習慣法 xí guàn fǎ customary law / common law
婆媳 pó xí mother-in-law and daughter-in-law
兄弟姐妹 xiōng dì jiě mèi brothers and sisters / siblings
老不死 lǎo bù sǐ (derog.) old but still alive / old fart / old bastard
姐妹俩 姐妹倆 jiě mèi liǎ The Sisters (short story)
姐妹花 jiě mèi huā beautiful sisters
阿公 ā gōng (old) grandfather / polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law / (Taiwanese) grandfather
丈人 zhàng rén wife's father (father-in-law) / old man syn
法政 fá zhèng law and government / law and politics syn
故道 gù dào old road / old way / old course (of a river)
小阿姨 xiǎo ā yí auntie, youngest of sisters in mother's family
甲 jiǎ first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75° syn
翁 wēng elderly man / father / father-in-law / neck feathers of a bird (old) syn
卿 qīng high ranking official (old) / term of endearment between spouses (old) / (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old) / honorific (old) syn
倩 qiàn pretty / winsome / to ask for sb's help / son-in-law (old) syn
连襟 連襟 lián jīn husbands of sisters / brothers-in-law / extremely close (of a relationship) syn
执法如山 執法如山 zhí fǎ rú shān to maintain the law as firm as a mountain (idiom) / to enforce the law strictly syn
娅 婭 yà (literary) term of address between husbands of sisters / (used to transliterate foreign names) / (used in Chinese women's names) syn
者 zhě (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this syn
博士 bó shì doctor (as an academic degree) / (old) person specialized in a skill or trade / (old) court academician
解 xiè acrobatic display (esp. on horseback) (old) / variant of 懈[xie4] and 邂[xie4] (old) syn
士 shì member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker syn
老头 老頭 lǎo tóu old fellow / old man / father / husband syn
古老 gǔ lǎo ancient / old / age-old syn
打发 打發 dǎ fa to dispatch sb to do sth / to make sb leave / to pass (the time) / (old) to make arrangements / (old) to bestow (alms etc) syn
老头子 老頭子 lǎo tóu zi (coll.) old man / (said of an aging husband) my old man syn
老式 lǎo shì old-fashioned / old type / outdated syn
食道 shí dào esophagus / gullet / (old) the proper way to eat / (old) food transportation route syn
老将 老將 lǎo jiàng lit. old general / commander-in-chief 將帥|将帅, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess / fig. old-timer / veteran syn
宿怨 sù yuàn an old grudge / old scores to settle syn
老汉 老漢 lǎo hàn old man / I (an old man referring to himself) syn
喜新厌旧 喜新厭舊 xǐ xīn yàn jiù lit. to like the new, and hate the old (idiom) / fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new girlfriend), bored with the old syn
寿终正寝 壽終正寢 shòu zhōng zhèng qǐn to die of old age / to die in one's bed at a ripe old age / (fig.) (of a structure or machine etc) to come to the end of its life syn
老态 老態 lǎo tài old and frail / decrepit / doddering / decrepitude / infirmities of old age syn
小子 xiǎo zǐ (literary) youngster / (old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation) / (old) I, me (used in speaking to one's elders) syn
老家伙 老傢伙 lǎo jiā huo (coll.) old fellow / old codger syn
古风 古風 gǔ fēng old style / old custom / a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry aka 古體詩|古体诗[gu3 ti3 shi1] syn
白头偕老 白頭偕老 bái tóu xié lǎo (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom) / to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part syn
旧称 舊稱 jiù chēng old term / old way of referring to sth
条 條 tiáo strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc) syn
法律 fǎ lǜ law / CL:條|条[tiao2], 套[tao4], 個|个[ge4] syn
法庭 fǎ tíng court of law syn
准 準 zhǔn accurate / standard / definitely / certainly / about to become (bride, son-in-law etc) / quasi- / para- syn
亲 親 qìng parents-in-law of one's offspring syn
无辜 無辜 wú gū innocent / innocence / not guilty (law) syn
法院 fǎ yuàn court of law / court syn
违反 違反 wéi fǎn to violate (a law) syn
治安 zhì ān law and order / public security syn
判决 判決 pàn jué judgment (by a court of law) / to pass judgment on / to sentence syn
违法 違法 wéi fǎ illegal / to break the law syn
委托人 wěi tuō rén (law) client / trustor syn
公 gōng public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal) syn
裁判 cái pàn (law) to judge / to adjudicate / verdict / judgement / (sports) to referee / (sports) umpire / referee / judge syn
证物 證物 zhèng wù exhibit (law) syn
法案 fǎ àn bill / proposed law syn
宝藏 寶藏 bǎo zàng precious mineral deposits / hidden treasure / (fig.) treasure / (Buddhism) the treasure of Buddha's law syn
逍遥法外 逍遙法外 xiāo yáo fǎ wài unfettered and beyond the law (idiom) / evading retribution / getting away with it (e.g. crimes) / still at large
条款 條款 tiáo kuǎn clause (of contract or law) / CL:項|项[xiang4] syn
犯法 fàn fǎ to break the law syn
逃犯 táo fàn escaped criminal / fugitive from the law syn
法则 法則 fǎ zé law / rule / code syn
殴打 毆打 ōu dǎ to beat up / to come to blows / battery (law) syn
过失 過失 guò shī error / fault / (law) negligence / delinquency syn
规律 規律 guī lǜ rule (e.g. of science) / law of behavior / regular pattern / rhythm / discipline syn
法学院 法學院 fǎ xué yuàn law school
婆婆 pó po husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma syn
管制 guǎn zhì to control / to restrict / (PRC law) non-custodial sentence with specified restrictions on one's activities for up to 3 years (e.g. not to participate in demonstrations) syn
庇护 庇護 bì hù to shelter / to protect / to provide refuge / (law) asylum syn
法定 fǎ dìng statutory / law-based / legal syn
女婿 nǚ xù daughter's husband / son-in-law syn
江湖 jiāng hú rivers and lakes / all corners of the country / remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law / the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3xia2]) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc / demimonde / (in modern times) triads / secret gangster societies / underworld syn
岳父 yuè fù wife's father, father-in-law syn
绳之以法 繩之以法 shéng zhī yǐ fǎ to punish according to the law / to bring to justice syn
通缉犯 通緝犯 tōng jī fàn wanted criminal / fugitive (from the law)
守法 shǒu fǎ to abide by the law
岳母 yuè mǔ wife's mother, mother-in-law syn
嫂子 sǎo zi (coll.) older brother's wife / sister-in-law syn
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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