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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *做* | 做* | *做
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)
HSK 1
wife
HSK 4
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
HSK 4
a (married) couple / husband and wife / CL: 對|对
HSK 4
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
HSK 3
father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman)
HSK 4
married woman / Mrs. / Madam / wife / CL: 個|个,
HSK 2
(coll.) wife
HSK 4
husband and wife; married couple
HSK 4
daughter-in-law / wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation
HSK 7-9
husband and wife
HSK 7-9
wife's mother, mother-in-law
HSK 7-9
wife and children
wife's mother; mother-in-law
wife's father, father-in-law
HSK 7-9
wife and child
married woman; wife (as a social role)
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
husband and wife
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *妻* | 妻* | *妻
(bound form) wife
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *岳* | 岳* | *岳
wife's parents and paternal uncles
Xanthippe, Socrates' wife
(of a groom) to fetch one's bride from her parents' home to escort her to the wedding ceremony / (fig.) to take as one's wife; to marry (a woman)
first wife
my wife (humble)
term of respect for a teacher's wife
(coll.) father-in-law (wife's father)
Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David (according to the Hebrew Bible)
(dialect) wife / (dialect) young married woman
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *娶* | 娶* | *娶
to take a wife / to marry (a woman)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *婚* | 婚* | *婚
to marry / marriage / wedding / to take a wife
(old) wife
Soong Mei-ling (1898-2003), Chiang Kai-shek's second wife
younger sibling / younger brother's wife
to take a wife / to get married (man)
wife
husband's parents; parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple; husband and wife
ex-wife / late wife
(coll.) older brother's wife; sister-in-law
HSK 7-9
female proprietor / lady boss / boss's wife
hole / opening / cut / gap / gash / my husband or wife / classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc) / precedent
HSK 7-9
Song Qingling (1893-1981), second wife of Sun Yat-sen 孫中山|孙中山, influential political figure in China after Sun's death in 1925
(literary) husband and wife; married couple
mistress / second wife / lover
flying in pairs / close union as husband and wife / round-trip flight / (slang) threesome
primary wife
to separate (married couple) / to live apart (of husband and wife, family members)
sister-in-law / wife's older sister
(of a wife) to return to her parental home / (fig.) to return to one's old place, job, school etc
(archaic) term used by a husband to refer to himself when speaking to his wife
wife's younger brother
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 , righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom and fidelity )
wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife
(dialect) form of address for one's wife / polite form of address for a woman
wife
a good wife and loving mother
mother's youngest sister / wife's younger sister; sister-in-law
(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
wife's family (before marriage)
to take a wife
husband and wife / couple
sister's son / wife's sibling's son
(coll.) father's older brother's wife / aunt (polite address)
son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister)
lit. the lioness from Hedong roars (idiom) / fig. refers to a shrewish wife or a henpecked husband
virtuoso piper wins a beauty / the xiao 簫|箫 (mouth organ) virtuoso 蕭史|萧史 won for his wife the beautiful daughter of Duke Mu of Qin 秦穆公
an ugly wife is a treasure at home (idiom)
henpecked / to be under one's wife's thumb
one's late wife
wife of older male cousin via female line
the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend)
wife's father (father-in-law) / old man
brother's son's wife; nephew's wife
son's son's wife; grandson's wife
(old) three generations (father, self and sons) / three clans (your own, your mother's, your wife's)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *婶* | 婶* | *婶
wife of father's younger brother
term of respect for a teacher's wife / sorceress
wife of father's younger brother / aunt
(coll.) father's younger brother's wife / aunt
wife's older brother
(coll.) wife's older brother
(coll.) wife's younger sister; sister-in-law (term not used to directly address her)
primary wife (in contrast to concubine); legal wife
to repudiate one's wife
clever wife / ingenious housewife / Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
aunt / wife of father's younger brother
older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman)
(coll.) aunt / maternal uncle's wife
older brother's wife / sister-in-law / (polite address to a younger married woman) sister
lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom) / fig. a wife having an illicit lover
(coll.) wife's younger brother
Yang Kaihui (1901-1930), Mao Zedong's second wife
wife of younger male cousin via female line / younger cousins via female line
"wife cake" – a thin, flaky Cantonese pastry filled with sweetened winter melon (or other mild sweet fillings)
first wife
son, esp. the eldest son, of the wife (contrasted with 庶子)
to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family
wife / family / (literary) residence
Peng Liyuan (1962–), PRC folk music singer, wife of Xi Jinping 習近平|习近平
wife, kids and a warm bed (idiom) / the simple and good life

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