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(coll.) wife
HSK 4
(coll.) mother's mother / maternal grandmother
HSK 7-9
witch / sorceress / female shaman
HSK 7-9
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(bound form) grandmother / (bound form) matron / (bound form) mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)
husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma
concubine / mistress / (dialect) woman
great-grandmother
granny / mother-in-law
(dialect) hen; prostitute / (Tw) (adjective) interfering; nosy; (noun) busybody (from Taiwanese 家婆, Tai-lo pr. [ke-pô])
faded old woman
midwife (old term)
Shiva (Hindu deity)
henpecked / to be under one's wife's thumb
old woman (at times contemptuous)
husband's parents; parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple; husband and wife
midwife
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
(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
(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
housewife (jocular) / female housekeeper of a higher rank (old) / busybody
midwife
tomboy
grandfather's sister / sister of a woman's father-in-law
women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)
aunt by marriage / husband's aunt / husband's father's younger brother's wife
matchmaker
midwife
primary wife
hot-water bottle
Caucasian woman (Cantonese)
meddling woman / nosy parker (Cantonese)
wealthy woman
(dialect) mother-in-law / (house)wife
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
midwife who induces labor
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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