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"wife and child" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
妻儿 妻兒 qī ér wife and child syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation
小朋友 xiǎo péng yǒu child / kid (used to refer to a child, or by an adult to address a child, or, in Taiwan, to refer to sb's own child) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
小皇帝 xiǎo huáng dì child emperor / (fig.) spoiled child / spoiled boy / pampered only child
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
家小 jiā xiǎo wife and children / wife syn
妻小 qī xiǎo wife and children / (old) wife syn
前妻 qián qī ex-wife / late 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
舅母 jiù mǔ wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife syn
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
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
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
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
抛妻弃子 拋妻棄子 pāo qī - qì zǐ to abandon one's wife and child(ren)
妇幼保健问题千年项目第4工作队 婦幼保健問題千年項目第4工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 4 on Child Health and Maternal Health / Task Force 4 on Child Health and Maternal Health
妇幼保健问题第4工作队 婦幼保健問題第4工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 4 on Child Health and Maternal Health / Task Force 4 on Child Health and Maternal Health
孕产妇、新生儿和儿童健康 孕產婦、新生兒和兒童健康 maternal, newborn and child health / maternal, neonatal, and child health
亲子 親子 qīn zǐ parent and child / parent-child (relationship) / two successive generations
人精 rén jīng sophisticate / man with extensive experience / child prodigy / Wunderkind (i.e. brilliant child) / spirit within a person (i.e. blood and essential breath 血氣|血气 of TCM)
国际获取子女抚养费特别委员会 國際獲取子女撫養費特別委員會 Special Commission on the International Recovery of Child Support and other Forms of Family Maintenance / Special Commission on the International Recovery of Child Support
儿童保护和儿童权利分区域工作队 兒童保護和兒童權利分區域工作隊 Sub-Regional Task Force on Child Protection and Child Rights
三天不打，上房揭瓦 sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom) / spare the rod, spoil the child
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)
小鬼 xiǎo guǐ little demon (term of endearment for a child) / mischievous child / imp syn
亲生 親生 qīn shēng one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth) / biological (parents) / birth (parents) syn
患儿 患兒 huàn ér child victim of disaster or disease / afflicted child syn
私生子 sī shēng zǐ illegitimate child (male) / bastard / love child
认领 認領 rèn lǐng to claim (as one's property) / to adopt (a child) / to accept (an illegitimate child as one's own) syn
陪读 陪讀 péi dú to accompany one's child or spouse who is studying overseas / to help a child with their study, reading or practicing together
望子成龙 望子成龍 wàng zǐ chéng lóng lit. to hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom) / fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life / to have great hopes for one's offspring / to give one's child the best education as a career investment syn
畸形儿 畸形兒 jī xíng ér deformed child / child with birth defect syn
狼孩 láng hái wolf child / human child raised by wolves (in legends)
垂髫 chuí tiáo hair hanging down (child's hairstyle) / (fig.) young child / early childhood syn
残疾儿 殘疾兒 cán jí ér a child with a birth defect / a deformed child
私生子女 sī shēng zǐ nǚ illegitimate child / bastard / love child
管教无方 管教無方 guǎn jiào wú fāng unable to discipline a child / incapable of dealing with (unruly child)
儿童约束系统 child restraint system / child restraint
儿童色情旅游业 child sex tourism / child sexual tourism
儿童教儿童计划 child to child programme
爱幼城倡议 愛幼城倡議 ài yòu chéng chàng yì Child-Friendly Cities Initiative / Child-Friendly Community Initiative
爱幼社区倡议 愛幼社區倡議 ài yòu shè qū chàng yì Child-Friendly Cities Initiative / Child-Friendly Community Initiative
非政府组织今日女童问题论坛 非政府組織今日女童問題論壇 Non-Governmental Organizations Forum on the Female Child of Today / NGO Forum on the Female Child of Today
特殊儿童 特殊兒童 tè shū ér tóng child with special needs / gifted child
乖乖 guāi guāi (of a child) well-behaved / obediently / (term of endearment for a child) darling / sweetie syn
鸡娃 雞娃 jī wá chick / (neologism c. 2020) to arrange a daily regimen of activities for one's child / a child whose life is regimented this way
弃子 棄子 qì zǐ sacrificed piece (in chess or Go) / abandoned child / (fig.) sth that has been abandoned or sacrificed (an ally, a product, employees etc) / (in expressions such as 拋家棄子|抛家弃子[pao1jia1-qi4zi3]) to abandon one's child(ren)
鸾凤 鸞鳳 luán fèng luan and phoenix / husband and wife / virtuous person / sovereign / belle syn
老婆孩子热炕头 老婆孩子熱炕頭 lǎo pó hái zi rè kàng tou wife, kids and a warm bed (idiom) / the simple and good life
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]
孨 zhuǎn (Internet slang) the three 子's that symbolize success in life: a house, a car and a wife (房子[fang2 zi5], 車子|车子[che1 zi5] and 妻子[qi1 zi5]) / (archaic) cautious / cowardly
母子 mǔ zǐ mother and child / parent and subsidiary (companies) / principal and interest
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
配合 pèi hé matching / fitting in with / compatible with / to correspond / to fit / to conform to / rapport / to coordinate with / to act in concert with / to cooperate / to become man and wife / to combine parts of machine syn
妻子 qī zǐ wife and children syn
夫妻 fū qī husband and wife / married couple syn
上门 上門 shàng mén to drop in / to visit / to lock a door / (of a shop) to close / to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family syn
夫妇 夫婦 fū fù a (married) couple / husband and wife / CL:對|对[dui4] syn
双飞 雙飛 shuāng fēi flying in pairs / close union as husband and wife / round-trip flight / (slang) threesome
眷属 眷屬 juàn shǔ family member / husband and wife syn
分居 fēn jū to separate (married couple) / to live apart (of husband and wife, family members)
江青 jiāng qīng Jiang Qing (1914-1991), Mao Zedong's fourth wife and leader of the Gang of Four
两口子 兩口子 liǎng kǒu zi husband and wife syn
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
贤妻良母 賢妻良母 xián qī liáng mǔ a good wife and loving mother
冷宫 冷宮 lěng gōng (in literature and opera) a place to which a monarch banishes a wife or concubine who falls from favor / (fig.) the doghouse / a state of disfavor
家眷 jiā juàn one's wife and children syn
伉俪 伉儷 kàng lì husband and wife (literary) syn
合葬 hé zàng to bury husband and wife together / joint interment
相夫教子 xiàng fū jiào zǐ to assist one's husband and educate the children (idiom) / the traditional roles of a good wife
贤慧 賢慧 xián huì (of a wife) wise and kind / perfect in her traditional roles
做 zuò to make / to produce / to write / to compose / to do / to engage in / to hold (a party etc) / (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc) / to become (husband and wife, friends etc) / (of a thing) to serve as / to be used for / to assume (an air or manner) syn
入赘 入贅 rù zhuì to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family syn
兄嫂 xiōng sǎo elder brother and his wife syn
双职工 雙職工 shuāng zhí gōng working couple (husband and wife both employed)
俪 儷 lì husband and wife syn
夫妻反目 fū qī fǎn mù man and wife fall out (idiom, from Book of Changes) / marital strife
相敬如宾 相敬如賓 xiāng jìng rú bīn to treat each other as an honored guest (idiom) / mutual respect between husband and wife syn
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
公母俩 公母倆 gōng mǔ liǎ husband and wife
拖儿带女 拖兒帶女 tuō ér dài nǚ supporting a wife and children / dragged down by having a family to feed syn
携眷 攜眷 xié juàn accompanied by one's dependents / encumbered by wife and children
曾金燕 zēng jīn yàn Zeng Jinyan (1983-), Chinese blogger and human rights activist, wife of dissident activist Hu Jia 胡佳[Hu2 Jia1]
耦居 ǒu jū to live together (as husband and wife)
裙带风 裙帶風 qún dài fēng the practice of favoring sb because of the influence of the person's wife or other female relative / (by extension) culture of favoritism towards relatives, friends and associates
遗妻弃子 遺妻棄子 yí qī qì zǐ to abandon wife and children
拔示巴 bá shì bā Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David (according to the Hebrew Bible)
三族 sān zú (old) three generations (father, self and sons) / three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's)
翁婿 wēng xù father-in-law (wife's father) and son-in-law
裸官 luǒ guān Communist Party official whose wife and children have left China to reside in a foreign country
齐人之福 齊人之福 qí rén zhī fú lit. the happy fate of the man from Qi (who had a wife and a concubine) (idiom) / fig. (ironically) the joy of having several partners / the life of a pasha
同妻 tóng qī (neologism c. 2009) wife of a gay man (the man may marry to conform with social expectations, and the woman often enters the marriage not knowing he is gay)
少年夫妻老来伴 少年夫妻老來伴 shào nián fū qī lǎo lái bàn husband and wife in youth, companions in old age
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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