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husband and wife; married couple
HSK 4
to be bereaved of one's wife
to repudiate one's wife
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(bound form) wife
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to marry off (a daughter)
married woman; wife (as a social role)
fiancée
lovely wife
to take a wife / to get married (man)
wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband
first wife
(old) perfect wife / you, my beloved wife
ex-wife / late wife
a couple in a short-lived, improper relationship
polygamy
monogamy
wife swapping
favor the concubine and do away with the wife (idiom) / spoil one's mistress and neglect one's wife
to use one's power and influence to take another man's wife for oneself
(neologism c. 2009) wife of a gay man (the man may marry to conform with social expectations, and the woman often enters the marriage not knowing he is gay)
weekend spouse / relationship involving a sugar-daddy
concubine
widow / the deceased's widow


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