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to marry / to get married / CL:
HSK 3
to divorce
HSK 3
to propose marriage
HSK 7-9
to get engaged
HSK 7-9
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
bigamy
newly wed
to remarry (the same person)
to break a promise of marriage
to break off an engagement
to intermarry
to flee to avoid an arranged marriage
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
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
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
to become engaged / to affiance (a daughter)
to propose marriage
variant of 訂婚|订婚
of marriageable age
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
ghost marriage (in which one or both parties are dead)
tin anniversary; aluminum anniversary (10th wedding anniversary)
mixed marriage
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 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
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)
to marry after getting pregnant
child marriage
common-law marriage / de facto marriage
same-sex marriage / gay marriage
to lose one's spouse (through marriage failure or bereavement)
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
rather destroy ten temples than a single marriage (idiom)
formal betrothal (in which the boy's family sends presents to the girl's family)
lit. naked wedding / no-frills civil wedding ceremony lacking a material foundation: no car, house, reception, rings, or honeymoon
to get married soon after meeting


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