丈母娘 zhàng mǔ niáng wife's mother / mother-in-law syn 丈母 zhàng mǔ wife's mother / mother-in-law syn 泰水 tài shuǐ (literary) mother-in-law / wife's mother 舅母 jiù mǔ wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife syn 妗子 jìn zi (informal) mother's brother's wife / maternal uncle's wife syn 舅嫂 jiù sǎo wife's brother's wife, sister-in-law 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 小姨 xiǎo yí mother's youngest sister / wife's younger sister / sister-in-law 家婆 jiā pó (dialect) mother-in-law / (house)wife 婆婆 pó po husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma syn 翁婿 wēng xù father-in-law (wife's father) and son-in-law 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 前妻 qián qī ex-wife / late wife syn 家小 jiā xiǎo wife and children / wife syn 贤妻 賢妻 xián qī (old) perfect wife / you, my beloved wife 正室 zhèng shì primary wife (in contrast to concubine) / legal wife 贤内助 賢內助 xián nèi zhù (said of sb else's wife) a good wife syn 孙媳妇 孫媳婦 sūn xí fu son's son's wife / grandson's wife syn 鼓盆之戚 gǔ pén zhī qī drumming on a bowl in grief (idiom, refers to Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3] grieving for his lost wife) / fig. grief for a lost wife 孙媳夫 孫媳夫 sūn xí fu son's son's wife / grandson's wife 侄媳妇 姪媳婦 zhí xí fu brother's son's wife / nephew's wife syn 鼓盆 gǔ pén lit. to drum on a bowl / refers to Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3] grieving for his lost wife / fig. grief for a lost wife 宠妾灭妻 寵妾滅妻 chǒng qiè miè qī favor the concubine and do away with the wife (idiom) / spoil one's mistress and neglect one's wife 妻小 qī xiǎo wife and children / (old) wife syn 侄媳妇 姪媳婦 zhí xí fù brother's son's wife / nephew's wife syn 孙媳妇 孫媳婦 sūn xí fù son's son's wife / grandson's wife syn 公司法 gōng sī fǎ corporations law / company law / corporate law 王法 wáng fǎ the law / the law of the land / the law of a state (in former times) / criterion syn 协议法 xié yì fǎ treaty-made law / treaty-created law / treaty law 伯母 bó mǔ wife of father's elder brother / aunt / (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 贤妻良母 賢妻良母 xián qī liáng mǔ a good wife and loving mother 六亲 六親 liù qīn six close relatives, namely: father 父[fu4], mother 母[mu3], older brothers 兄[xiong1], younger brothers 弟[di4], wife 妻[qi1], male children 子[zi3] / one's kin syn 妗 jìn wife of mother's brother syn 孺人 rú rén (old) wife / mother 三族 sān zú (old) three generations (father, self and sons) / three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's) 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] 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 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) 姨姥姥 yí lǎo lao mother's mother's sister / great-aunt 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 媳妇 媳婦 xí fù daughter-in-law / wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation syn 嫂子 sǎo zi (coll.) older brother's wife / sister-in-law syn 大嫂 dà sǎo older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) syn 岳父 yuè fù wife's father, father-in-law 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) 姑爷 姑爺 gū ye son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister) syn 娶媳妇 娶媳婦 qǔ xí fù to get oneself a wife / to take a daughter-in-law 丈人 zhàng rén wife's father (father-in-law) / old man syn 弟媳 dì xí younger brother's wife / sister-in-law syn 岳丈 yuè zhàng father-in-law (wife's father) syn 弟妇 弟婦 dì fù younger brother's wife / sister-in-law syn 姨妹 yí mèi wife's younger sister / sister-in-law 嫂 sǎo (bound form) older brother's wife / sister-in-law syn 姨姐 yí jiě wife's elder sister / sister-in-law 赘婿 贅婿 zhuì xù son-in-law living at wife's parent's house syn 大姨子 dà yí zi sister-in-law / wife's older sister syn 老丈人 lǎo zhàng ren (coll.) father-in-law (wife's father) syn 外舅 wài jiù (literary) father-in-law / wife's father 公婆 gōng - pó husband's parents / parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple / husband and wife syn 阿婆 ā pó granny / mother-in-law syn 婆 pó (bound form) grandmother / (bound form) matron / (bound form) mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship) syn 虎尾兰 虎尾蘭 hǔ wěi lán snake plant aka mother-in-law's tongue (Dracaena trifasciata) 执法 執法 zhí fǎ to enforce a law / law enforcement 法治 fǎ zhì rule of law / to rule by law syn 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 天道 tiān dào natural law / heavenly law / weather (dialect) syn 护法 護法 hù fǎ to keep the law / to protect Buddha's teachings / protector of Buddhist law (i.e. temple donor) 亲家 親家 qìng jia parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law / relatives by marriage syn 严刑 嚴刑 yán xíng strict law / cruel punishment / to carry out cruel law rigorously syn 起诉书 起訴書 qǐ sù shū indictment (law) / statement of charges (law) syn 法政 fá zhèng law and government / law and politics 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 以身试法 以身試法 yǐ shēn shì fǎ to challenge the law (idiom) / to knowingly violate the law syn 习惯法 習慣法 xí guàn fǎ customary law / common law 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 阿伏伽德罗定律 阿伏伽德羅定律 ā fú jiā dé luó dìng lǜ Avogadro's law, a gas law named after Amedeo Avogadro 库仑定律 庫侖定律 kù lún dìng lǜ Coulomb's law / the inverse square law of electrostatic forces 以言代法 yǐ yán dài fǎ to substitute one's words for the law (idiom) / high-handedly putting one's orders above the law 受法律保护权 受法律保護權 shòu fǎ lǜ bǎo hù quán right to protection by law (law) 守分 shǒu fèn to abide by the law / to respect the law 小婿 xiǎo xù my son-in-law (humble) / I (spoken to parents-in-law) 扒灰 pá huī incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law 服法 fú fǎ to submit to the law / to obey the law / administration method (of medicine) 法外 fǎ wài outside the law / beyond the law / extrajudicial 爬灰 pá huī incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law / also written 扒灰 目无法纪 目無法紀 mù wú fǎ jì with no regard for law or discipline (idiom) / flouting the law and disregarding all rules / in complete disorder syn 难逃法网 難逃法網 nán táo fǎ wǎng It is hard to escape the dragnet of the law / the long arm of the law 