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(coll.) wife
HSK 4
witch / sorceress / female shaman
HSK 7-9
(coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother
HSK 7-9
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(bound form) grandmother / (bound form) matron / (bound form) mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)
mother-in-law and daughter-in-law
husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma
matchmaker
granny / mother-in-law
husband's family (traditionally where the wife moves into)
old woman (at times contemptuous)
wealthy woman
old woman
Brahmin
effeminate / old-womanish / garrulous / fainthearted / overly careful / overly sensitive / maudlin
to swirl about / (of leaves and branches) to sway
grandfather's sister / sister of a woman's father-in-law
husband's parents; parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple; husband and wife
(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
faded old woman
woman (derog.)
meddling woman / nosy parker (Cantonese)
(dialect) hen; prostitute / (Tw) (adjective) interfering; nosy; (noun) busybody (from Taiwanese 家婆, Tai-lo pr. [ke-pô])
great-grandmother
earnest and well-meaning advice (idiom); to persuade patiently
midwife
Brahmanism / Hinduism
(dialect) wife / married woman
women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)
aunt by marriage / husband's aunt / husband's father's younger brother's wife
midwife
(literary) kindheartedness
hot-water bottle
midwife (old term)
housewife (jocular) / female housekeeper of a higher rank (old) / busybody
Caucasian woman (Cantonese)
concubine / mistress / (dialect) woman
primary wife
tomboy
henpecked / to be under one's wife's thumb
Mahābhārata, second great Indian epic after 羅摩衍那|罗摩衍那, possibly originally c. 4th century BC
Shiva (Hindu deity)
night-scented lily (Alocasia odora)
both sides claim they're right (idiom)
every potter praises his own pot (idiom) / all one's geese are swans
(coll.) lying-in woman
mapo tofu / stir-fried beancurd in chili sauce
Borobudur (in Java, Indonesia)
(dialect) mother-in-law / (house)wife
midwife who induces labor
to chase girls / to hang around with girls
midwife
Champa, ancient Indochinese kingdom lasting from the 2nd to the 17th century, located in what is now central and southern Vietnam
(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
Borneo island (of Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei)
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
potion given to souls by the goddess Meng Po 孟婆 before they are reincarnated that makes them forget their previous existence
tearful (idiom)
hot-water bottle
wife, kids and a warm bed (idiom) / the simple and good life
Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)
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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