| | 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 |
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| | wife | HSK 4 |
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| | 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 |
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| | a (married) couple / husband and wife / CL: 對|对 | HSK 4 |
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| | 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 |
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| | father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman) | HSK 4 |
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| | married woman / Mrs. / Madam / wife / CL: 個|个, 位 | HSK 2 |
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| | (coll.) wife | HSK 4 |
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| | husband and wife; married couple | HSK 4 |
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| | daughter-in-law / wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | husband and wife | HSK 7-9 |
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| | wife's mother, mother-in-law | HSK 7-9 |
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| | wife and children | |
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| | wife's mother; mother-in-law | |
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| | wife's father, father-in-law | HSK 7-9 |
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| | wife and child | |
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| | married woman; wife (as a social role) | |
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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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| | husband and wife | |
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| | (bound form) wife | |
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| | wife's parents and paternal uncles | |
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| | Xanthippe, Socrates' wife | |
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| | (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) | |
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| | first wife | |
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| | my wife (humble) | |
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| | term of respect for a teacher's wife | |
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| | (coll.) father-in-law (wife's father) | |
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| | Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David (according to the Hebrew Bible) | |
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| | (dialect) wife / (dialect) young married woman | |
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| | to take a wife / to marry (a woman) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to marry / marriage / wedding / to take a wife | |
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| | (old) wife | |
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| | Soong Mei-ling (1898-2003), Chiang Kai-shek's second wife | |
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| | younger sibling / younger brother's wife | |
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| | to take a wife / to get married (man) | |
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| | wife | |
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| | husband's parents; parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple; husband and wife | |
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| | ex-wife / late wife | |
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| | (coll.) older brother's wife; sister-in-law | HSK 7-9 |
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| | female proprietor / lady boss / boss's wife | |
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| | 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 |
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| | 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 | |
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| | (literary) husband and wife; married couple | |
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| | mistress / second wife / lover | |
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| | flying in pairs / close union as husband and wife / round-trip flight / (slang) threesome | |
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| | primary wife | |
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| | to separate (married couple) / to live apart (of husband and wife, family members) | |
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| | sister-in-law / wife's older sister | |
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| | (of a wife) to return to her parental home / (fig.) to return to one's old place, job, school etc | |
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| | (archaic) term used by a husband to refer to himself when speaking to his wife | |
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| | wife's younger brother | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife | |
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| | (dialect) form of address for one's wife / polite form of address for a woman | |
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| | wife | |
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| | a good wife and loving mother | |
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| | mother's youngest sister / wife's younger sister; sister-in-law | |
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| | (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 | |
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| | wife's family (before marriage) | |
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| | to take a wife | |
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| | husband and wife / couple | |
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| | sister's son / wife's sibling's son | |
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| | (coll.) father's older brother's wife / aunt (polite address) | |
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| | son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister) | |
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| | lit. the lioness from Hedong roars (idiom) / fig. refers to a shrewish wife or a henpecked husband | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | an ugly wife is a treasure at home (idiom) | |
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| | henpecked / to be under one's wife's thumb | |
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| | one's late wife | |
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| | wife of older male cousin via female line | |
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| | the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend) | |
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| | wife's father (father-in-law) / old man | |
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| | brother's son's wife; nephew's wife | |
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| | son's son's wife; grandson's wife | |
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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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| | wife of father's younger brother | |
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| | term of respect for a teacher's wife / sorceress | |
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| | wife of father's younger brother / aunt | |
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| | (coll.) father's younger brother's wife / aunt | |
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| | wife's older brother | |
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| | (coll.) wife's older brother | |
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| | (coll.) wife's younger sister; sister-in-law (term not used to directly address her) | |
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| | primary wife (in contrast to concubine); legal wife | |
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| | to repudiate one's wife | |
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| | clever wife / ingenious housewife / Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) | |
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| | aunt / wife of father's younger brother | |
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| | older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) | |
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| | (coll.) aunt / maternal uncle's wife | |
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| | older brother's wife / sister-in-law / (polite address to a younger married woman) sister | |
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| | lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom) / fig. a wife having an illicit lover | |
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| | (coll.) wife's younger brother | |
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| | Yang Kaihui (1901-1930), Mao Zedong's second wife | |
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| | wife of younger male cousin via female line / younger cousins via female line | |
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| | "wife cake" – a thin, flaky Cantonese pastry filled with sweetened winter melon (or other mild sweet fillings) | |
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| | first wife | |
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| | son, esp. the eldest son, of the wife (contrasted with 庶子) | |
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| | to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family | |
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| | wife / family / (literary) residence | |
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| | Peng Liyuan (1962–), PRC folk music singer, wife of Xi Jinping 習近平|习近平 | |
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| | wife, kids and a warm bed (idiom) / the simple and good life | |
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