"wife and children" Chinese-English Dictionary

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妻子 qī zǐ wife and children syn
家小 jiā xiǎo wife and children / wife syn
妻小 qī xiǎo wife and children / (old) wife syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
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
弱小 ruò xiǎo small and weak / puny / the small and weak / children / women and children syn
安全理事会儿童与武装冲突问题工作组 Working Group of the Security Council on Children and Armed Conflict / Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict
儿童与武装冲突问题工作组 Working Group of the Security Council on Children and Armed Conflict / Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict
跨国收养方面保护儿童及合作海牙公约 跨國收養方面保護兒童及合作海牙公約 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption / Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption
跨国收养方面保护儿童及合作公约 跨國收養方面保護兒童及合作公約 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption / Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption
儿童问题区域网络 兒童問題區域網絡 NGO / UNICEF Regional Network for Children in Central and Eastern Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States and Baltic States / Regional Network for Children
家眷 jiā juàn one's wife and children syn
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
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
遗妻弃子 遺妻棄子 yí qī qì zǐ to abandon wife and children
裸官 luǒ guān Communist Party official whose wife and children have left China to reside in a foreign country
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
难民儿童和武装冲突中的儿童问题分组 難民兒童和武裝沖突中的兒童問題分組 Subgroup on Refugee Children and Children in Armed Conflict
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
姨甥男女 yí sheng nán nǚ wife's sister's children
嫡母 dí mǔ father's wife (term used by the children of a concubine)
慈爱 慈愛 cí ài love / devotion (to children) / affection, esp. towards children syn
少年宫 少年宮 shào nián gōng Children's Palace, institution where children can take part in various extracurricular activities
六一儿童节 六一兒童節 liù yī ér tóng jié Children's Day (June 1st), PRC national holiday for children under 14
拖油瓶 tuō yóu píng (derog.) (of a woman) to bring one's children into a second marriage / children by a previous marriage
暖巢管家 nuǎn cháo guǎn jiā housekeeper who looks after old people with no children or whose children do not live with them
留守儿童 留守兒童 liú shǒu ér tóng "left-behind children", rural children whose parents have to make a living as migrant workers in distant urban areas, but cannot afford to keep the family with them
解放儿童 Free the Children / Kids Can Free the Children
负责暴力侵害儿童问题的秘书长特别代表 Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children / Special Representative on violence against children
对受灾儿童的核心承诺 Core Commitments for Children in Emergencies / Core Commitments for Children
国际儿童环境会议 國際兒童環境會議 International Children's Conference on the Environment / Children's Conference on the Environment
儿童环境会议 兒童環境會議 International Children's Conference on the Environment / Children's Conference on the Environment
儿童对儿童网络倡议 兒童對兒童網絡倡議 children-to-children network initiative
孩奴 hái nú "a slave to one's children", hard-working parents who would do everything to ensure their children's well-being, in disregard of their own needs
少年之家 shào nián zhī jiā children's center / children's club
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)
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]
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
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
大小 dà xiǎo large and small / size / adults and children / consideration of seniority / at any rate syn
儿女 兒女 ér nǚ children / sons and daughters / a young man and a young woman (in love) syn
儿童和妇女社会统计和指标专家协商 兒童和婦女社會統計和指標專家協商 Expert Consultation on Social Statistics and Indicators for Children and Women
儿童与武装冲突问题监察和报告机制 兒童與武裝沖突問題監察和報告機制 monitoring and reporting mechanism on children and armed conflict
儿童与妇女紧急救济和安置方桉 兒童與婦女緊急救濟和安置方案 Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation programmes for children and women
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
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
妻儿 妻兒 qī ér wife and child syn
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
伉俪 伉儷 kàng lì husband and wife (literary) syn
合葬 hé zàng to bury husband and wife together / joint interment
贤慧 賢慧 xián huì (of a wife) wise and kind / perfect in her traditional roles
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)
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
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
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
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
霸妻 bà qī to use one's power and influence to take another man's wife for oneself
两口儿 兩口兒 liǎng kǒu r husband and wife / couple
聚少离多 聚少離多 jù shǎo lí duō (idiom) (of a husband and wife, etc) to spend more time apart than together / to see each other very little
公婆 gōng - pó husband's parents / parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple / husband and wife syn
抛妻弃子 拋妻棄子 pāo qī - qì zǐ to abandon one's wife and child(ren)
聚少离多 聚少離多 jù shǎo - lí duō (idiom) (of a husband and wife etc) to spend more time apart than together / to see each other very little
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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