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  *大* | 大* | *大
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
HSK 1
father and mother; parents
HSK 3
(coll.) father; dad / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
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  *公* | 公* | *公
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 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal)
HSK 6
father's younger brother; paternal uncle / form of address used by children for a male one generation older
HSK 4
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  *爸* | 爸* | *爸
father / dad / pa / papa
HSK 1
father's father / paternal grandfather
HSK 6
father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman)
HSK 4
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  *考* | 考* | *考
to check / to verify / to test / to examine / to take an exam / to take an entrance exam for / deceased father
HSK 1
father and daughter
HSK 6
identity; aspect of one's identity (e.g. mayor, father, permanent resident); role; capacity (as in "in his capacity as ..." + ... + 的身份); status (social, legal etc); position; rank
HSK 4
(coll.) father's older brother / uncle / term of respect for older man
HSK 4
father and son
HSK 6
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  *嚴* | 嚴* | *嚴
tight (closely sealed) / stern / strict / rigorous / severe / father
HSK 4
father / daddy / "I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt) / I (used arrogantly or jocularly)
wife's father, father-in-law
HSK 7-9
father's mother; paternal grandmother
HSK 6
father / also pr. [fu4 qin5] / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
leading light / founding father / principal proponent / also written 元勳|元勋
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
HSK 7-9
father's elder brother / term of respect for older man / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
(idiom) teacher for one day, father forever; students should have deep respect and lifelong gratitude for their teachers
(coll.) father-in-law (wife's father)
father's brother (uncle) / husband's brother (brother-in-law)
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  *父* | 父* | *父
father
(old) grandfather / polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law / (Taiwanese) grandfather
Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕 / the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义
father's elder brother / uncle
HSK 7-9
Alan Turing (1912-1954), English mathematician, considered as the father of computer science
deceased father / my late father
husband's father; father-in-law / grandpa; grandad / (old) form of address for a eunuch
father (as a social role)
benevolent father, filial son (idiom) / natural love between parents and children
father or founder of a nation / Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen)
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  *叔* | 叔* | *叔
uncle / father's younger brother / husband's younger brother / Taiwan pr. [shu2]
(idiom) (of a son) to carry on one's father's business or profession
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers / half (brother or sister)
(coll.) father's married sister / paternal aunt
founding figure (of a country or dynasty) / founding father / fig. also used of company or school etc
Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015), founding father of modern Singapore, prime minister 1959-1990
father; dad
(coll.) mother's father / maternal grandfather
HSK 7-9
like father, like son (idiom)
uncle (affectionate name for a friend older than one's father) / old friend
ancestor; forefather / sb's late father
father's father's father / paternal great-grandfather
(coll.) father's older brother's wife / aunt (polite address)
paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister) / (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter / (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I; me; this lady here / (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach
father's sister's husband; husband of paternal aunt; uncle
father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother
my (your etc) old father / polite appellation for an elderly male
Sima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian 史記|史记, known as the father of Chinese historiography
wife's father (father-in-law) / old man
(coll.) father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother / respectful form of address for an old woman
father and elder brother(s) / head of the family / patriarch
(old) three generations (father, self and sons) / three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's)
six close relatives, namely: father , mother , older brothers , younger brothers , wife , male children / one's kin
a dad (father of a young child)
the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend)
strict or stern father
father's oldest sister / husband's older sister / sister-in-law
mother and father / parents
(term of respect) second only to father / like a father (to me)
King Wen of Zhou state (c. 1152-1056 BC), reigned c. 1099-1056 BC as king of Zhou state, leading figure in building the subsequent Western Zhou dynasty, father of King Wu of Zhou 周武王 the first Zhou dynasty king
husband's older brother / father's older brother (esp. his oldest brother)
(literary) father's friends (of the same generation)
head of a family / (polite) my father / (polite) my grandfather / your esteemed father
adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
aunt / wife of father's younger brother
great-grandfather / (old) grandfather / father
maternal aunt / father's concubine (old)
to rely on / father and mother (classical)
(polite) father's sisters
father's younger brother / uncle
(polite) my father
Abba (Aramaic word father) / by ext. God the Father in Christian gospel
(dialect) father
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  *伯* | 伯* | *伯
father's elder brother / senior / paternal elder uncle / eldest of brothers / respectful form of address / Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位
father's concubine / (coll.) stepmother (esp. a young stepmother)
uncle (father's youngest brother)
son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister)
Xuanwu gate coup of June 626 in early Tang, in which Li Shimin 李世民 killed his brothers, seized the throne from his father as Emperor Taizong 唐太宗
one's own father / biological father
(name) Franklin / Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), US Founding Father, scientist and author
person of one's father's generation
biological father
leading light / founding father / principal proponent
Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality , physical charm , propriety in speech and efficiency in needlework
wife of father's elder brother (old)
father's brother's sons / paternal male cousin
eldest of father's younger brothers / uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father)
Cui Jian (1961-), father of Chinese rock music
(of siblings) having the same father but different mothers
elderly gentleman (respectful) / esteemed father
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
father / old man / venerable sir
father's father's brother's wife / great aunt
(respectful for) one's grandfather / sb's father / older people / the head of the house (used by servants) / a district magistrate
my late father / my ancestors / the late emperor
wife of father's younger brother / aunt

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