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to marry / to get married / CL:
HSK 3
to divorce
HSK 3
wedding ceremony / wedding / CL: 場|场
HSK 4
marriage; matrimony / CL: 樁|桩,
HSK 7-9
wedding dress / CL:
HSK 7-9
to propose marriage
HSK 7-9
to get engaged
HSK 7-9
marriage leave
casting a couple's fortune based on their bithdates (old)
to remarry
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  *婚* | 婚* | *婚
to marry / marriage / wedding / to take a wife
unmarried
to get married
married
premarital / prenuptial
love and marriage
bigamy
newly wed
engagement / wedding contract
marriage
extramarital affair
to marry
marriage custom
wedding day
to remarry (the same person)
wedding car
to break a promise of marriage
marriage upheaval (infidelity, divorce etc) / marriage breakup
to break off an engagement
wedding celebration
to intermarry
(old) marriage contract
to flee to avoid an arranged marriage
matchmaking / abbr. for 婚姻介紹|婚姻介绍
wedding reception
trial marriage / to live together before deciding whether to marry
to look for a partner
to be witness (at a wedding)
to marry for the first time / to be newly married
to marry too early
wedding / marriage / CL: 門|门, 樁|桩
length of married life / marriageable age / actual marrying age
to propose the future marriage of two unborn babies on condition that one turns out to be a boy, and the other, a girl (idiom)
paper wedding (first wedding anniversary)
to have an aversion to getting married
remarried lady (contemptuous term) / lady who marries for a second time
to be married but keep it secret from family, colleagues or the general public
silver wedding (25th wedding anniversary)
to go back on a marriage contract / to repudiate an engagement
fiancé
to become engaged / to affiance (a daughter)
to propose marriage
variant of 訂婚|订婚
of marriageable age
extramarital
to get married soon after meeting (abbr. for 閃電結婚|闪电结婚) (neologism c. 2005)
to have a grand wedding; to get married in lavish style
marriage by capture / bride kidnapping
(coll.) (usu. of women in former times) to marry for a second time / second marriage / person who remarries
marriage certificate
ghost marriage (in which one or both parties are dead)
to celebrate a wedding
tin anniversary; aluminum anniversary (10th wedding anniversary)
mixed marriage
wedding photos (done in studio, kit and caboodle taken care of by the studio)
wedding anniversary
to get married right after graduation
to save money on wedding expenses by getting together with another couple (or couples) in arranging restaurant reservations, wedding photo shoots etc
to get married and have kids; to start a family
to urge sb (typically, one's adult child or nephew etc) to get married
reunion after an absence is sweeter than being newlyweds (idiom) / absence makes the heart grow fonder
newly married couple / newlyweds
an illegitimate child
sham marriage, esp. a marriage between a gay man and a lesbian arranged in response to parental expectations of a conventional marriage (abbr. for 形式婚姻)
fiancée
forced marriage / arranged marriage (without the consent of the individuals)
Juno, an asteroid
to marry after getting pregnant
born out of wedlock / illegitimate
marriage agency
premarital sex
wedding reception
(derog.) (slang) married woman (term used by some feminists to imply that by marrying, women make themselves subservient to the patriarchal order)
(coll.) those who are in a rush to get married
child marriage
common-law marriage / de facto marriage
same-sex marriage / gay marriage
to lose one's spouse (through marriage failure or bereavement)
prenuptial agreement / dowry contract
marriage law
marriage counseling
(idiom) to experience the joy of being newly married
wedding witness
bigamy
to marry after getting pregnant
posthumous or ghost marriage (in which at least one of the bride and groom is dead)
(idiom) to marry because of an unplanned pregnancy
wedding / marriage celebration
singles seeking marriage partners / in-laws and friends

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