| | big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) | HSK 1 |
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| | father and mother; parents | HSK 3 |
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| | 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 |
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| | father's younger brother; paternal uncle / form of address used by children for a male one generation older | HSK 4 |
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| | father / dad / pa / papa | HSK 1 |
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| | father's father / paternal grandfather | HSK 6 |
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| | father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman) | HSK 4 |
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| | to check / to verify / to test / to examine / to take an exam / to take an entrance exam for / deceased father | HSK 1 |
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| | father and daughter | HSK 6 |
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| | identity; aspect of one's identity (e.g. mayor, father, permanent resident); role; capacity (as in "in his capacity as ..." 以 + ... + 的身份); status (social, legal etc); position; rank | HSK 4 |
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| | (coll.) father's older brother / uncle / term of respect for older man | HSK 4 |
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| | father and son | HSK 6 |
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| | tight (closely sealed) / stern / strict / rigorous / severe / father | HSK 4 |
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| | father / daddy / "I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt) / I (used arrogantly or jocularly) | |
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| | wife's father, father-in-law | HSK 7-9 |
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| | father's mother; paternal grandmother | HSK 6 |
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| | father / also pr. [fu4 qin5] / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | leading light / founding father / principal proponent / also written 元勳|元勋 | |
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| | 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 |
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| | father's elder brother / term of respect for older man / CL: 個|个 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) teacher for one day, father forever; students should have deep respect and lifelong gratitude for their teachers | |
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| | (coll.) father-in-law (wife's father) | |
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| | father's brother (uncle) / husband's brother (brother-in-law) | |
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| | father | |
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| | (old) grandfather / polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law / (Taiwanese) grandfather | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | father's elder brother / uncle | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Alan Turing (1912-1954), English mathematician, considered as the father of computer science | |
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| | deceased father / my late father | |
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| | husband's father; father-in-law / grandpa; grandad / (old) form of address for a eunuch | |
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| | father (as a social role) | |
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| | benevolent father, filial son (idiom) / natural love between parents and children | |
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| | father or founder of a nation / Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen) | |
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| | uncle / father's younger brother / husband's younger brother / Taiwan pr. [shu2] | |
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| | (idiom) (of a son) to carry on one's father's business or profession | |
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| | (of siblings) having the same father but different mothers / half (brother or sister) | |
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| | (coll.) father's married sister / paternal aunt | |
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| | founding figure (of a country or dynasty) / founding father / fig. also used of company or school etc | |
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| | Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015), founding father of modern Singapore, prime minister 1959-1990 | |
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| | father; dad | |
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| | (coll.) mother's father / maternal grandfather | HSK 7-9 |
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| | like father, like son (idiom) | |
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| | uncle (affectionate name for a friend older than one's father) / old friend | |
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| | ancestor; forefather / sb's late father | |
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| | father's father's father / paternal great-grandfather | |
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| | (coll.) father's older brother's wife / aunt (polite address) | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | father's sister's husband; husband of paternal aunt; uncle | |
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| | father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother | |
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| | my (your etc) old father / polite appellation for an elderly male | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | wife's father (father-in-law) / old man | |
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| | (coll.) father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother / respectful form of address for an old woman | |
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| | father and elder brother(s) / head of the family / patriarch | |
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| | (old) three generations (father, self and sons) / three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's) | |
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| | six close relatives, namely: father 父, mother 母, older brothers 兄, younger brothers 弟, wife 妻, male children 子 / one's kin | |
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| | a dad (father of a young child) | |
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| | the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend) | |
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| | strict or stern father | |
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| | father's oldest sister / husband's older sister / sister-in-law | |
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| | mother and father / parents | |
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| | (term of respect) second only to father / like a father (to me) | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | husband's older brother / father's older brother (esp. his oldest brother) | |
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| | (literary) father's friends (of the same generation) | |
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| | head of a family / (polite) my father / (polite) my grandfather / your esteemed father | |
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| | adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications) | |
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| | aunt / wife of father's younger brother | |
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| | great-grandfather / (old) grandfather / father | |
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| | maternal aunt / father's concubine (old) | |
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| | to rely on / father and mother (classical) | |
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| | (polite) father's sisters | |
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| | father's younger brother / uncle | |
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| | (polite) my father | |
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| | Abba (Aramaic word father) / by ext. God the Father in Christian gospel | |
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| | (dialect) father | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | father's concubine / (coll.) stepmother (esp. a young stepmother) | |
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| | uncle (father's youngest brother) | |
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| | son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister) | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | one's own father / biological father | |
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| | (name) Franklin / Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), US Founding Father, scientist and author | |
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| | person of one's father's generation | |
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| | biological father | |
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| | leading light / founding father / principal proponent | |
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| | Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | wife of father's elder brother (old) | |
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| | father's brother's sons / paternal male cousin | |
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| | eldest of father's younger brothers / uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father) | |
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| | Cui Jian (1961-), father of Chinese rock music | |
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| | (of siblings) having the same father but different mothers | |
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| | elderly gentleman (respectful) / esteemed father | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | father / old man / venerable sir | |
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| | father's father's brother's wife / great aunt | |
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| | (respectful for) one's grandfather / sb's father / older people / the head of the house (used by servants) / a district magistrate | |
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| | my late father / my ancestors / the late emperor | |
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| | wife of father's younger brother / aunt | |
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