| | pagoda (abbr. for 塔婆, a loanword from Sanskrit stūpa); tower; pylon (CL: 座) / (loanword) (pastry) tart | HSK 6 |
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| | (coll.) wife | HSK 4 |
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| | (coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Borobudur (in Java, Indonesia) | |
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| | every potter praises his own pot (idiom) / all one's geese are swans | |
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| | husband's parents; parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple; husband and wife | |
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| | potion given to souls by the goddess Meng Po 孟婆 before they are reincarnated that makes them forget their previous existence | |
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| | wealthy woman | |
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| | earnest and well-meaning advice (idiom); to persuade patiently | |
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| | Caucasian woman (Cantonese) | |
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| | primary wife | |
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| | Brahmin | |
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| | women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom) | |
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| | great-grandmother | |
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| | both sides claim they're right (idiom) | |
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| | henpecked / to be under one's wife's thumb | |
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| | (literary) kindheartedness | |
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| | midwife | |
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| | mother-in-law and daughter-in-law | |
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| | housewife (jocular) / female housekeeper of a higher rank (old) / busybody | |
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| | mapo tofu / stir-fried beancurd in chili sauce | |
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| | (dialect) cockroach | |
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| | witch / sorceress / female shaman | HSK 7-9 |
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| | husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma | |
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| | midwife | |
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| | old woman | |
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| | concubine / mistress / (dialect) woman | |
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| | wife, kids and a warm bed (idiom) / the simple and good life | |
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| | (bound form) grandmother / (bound form) matron / (bound form) mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship) | |
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| | to swirl about / (of leaves and branches) to sway | |
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| | tearful (idiom) | |
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| | hot-water bottle | |
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| | (dialect) wife / married woman | |
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| | aunt by marriage / husband's aunt / husband's father's younger brother's wife | |
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| | Champa, ancient Indochinese kingdom lasting from the 2nd to the 17th century, located in what is now central and southern Vietnam | |
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| | lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom) / fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor / what goes around comes around | |
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| | (dialect) mother-in-law / (house)wife | |
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| | Sabah, state of Malaysia in north Borneo 婆羅洲｜婆罗洲 | |
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| | Shiva (Hindu deity) | |
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| | matchmaker | |
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| | old woman (at times contemptuous) | |
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| | potion given to souls before they are reincarnated, which makes them forget their previous life (aka 孟婆湯｜孟婆汤) / magic potion; (fig.) bewitching words or actions | |
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| | Borneo island (of Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei) | |
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| | lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (idiom) / fig. it's not something you can avoid forever | |
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| | faded old woman | |
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| | (strictly speaking) sister of one's maternal grandmother; (more broadly) grandaunt; sister of one's mother's mother or mother's father / (Tw) (old) husband's maternal aunt | |
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| | granny / mother-in-law | |
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| | midwife who induces labor | |
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| | meddling woman / nosy parker (Cantonese) | |
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| | hot-water bottle | |
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| | midwife | |
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| | grandfather's sister / sister of a woman's father-in-law | |
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| | woman (derog.) | |
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| | husband's family (traditionally where the wife moves into) | |
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| | effeminate / old-womanish / garrulous / fainthearted / overly careful / overly sensitive / maudlin | |
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| | Labuan, island territory of Malaysia off Sabah coast, north Borneo 婆羅洲｜婆罗洲 | |
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| | tomboy | |
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| | night-scented lily (Alocasia odora) | |
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| | (coll.) lying-in woman | |
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| | (Beijing slang, 1960s–70s) to chat up girls; to flirt with unfamiliar girls | |
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| | Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis) | |
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| | (dialect) hen; prostitute / (Tw) (adjective) interfering; nosy; (noun) busybody (from Taiwanese 家婆, Tai-lo pr. [ke-pô]) | |
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| | Sarawak, state of Malaysia in northwest Borneo 婆羅洲｜婆罗洲 | |
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| | (Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess who gives a potion to souls before they are reincarnated, which makes them forget their previous life / (Chinese folk religion) Meng Po, goddess of the wind | |
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| | Mahābhārata, second great Indian epic after 羅摩衍那｜罗摩衍那, possibly originally c. 4th century BC | |
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| | Vyasa, Indian sage and scribe, supposed author of epic 摩訶婆羅多｜摩诃婆罗多 and a major figure in it | |
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| | Brahmanism / Hinduism | |
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| | midwife (old term) | |
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