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teacher / gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.) / husband / (dialect) doctor / CL:
HSK 1
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  *做* | 做* | *做
to make; to produce / to write; to compose / to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc) / (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc) / (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for / to assume (an air or manner)
HSK 1
(coll.) husband
HSK 4
husband and wife; married couple
HSK 4
husband
HSK 4
a (married) couple / husband and wife / CL: 對|对
HSK 4
daughter's husband; son-in-law
HSK 7-9
hole / opening / cut / gap / gash / my husband or wife / classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc) / precedent
HSK 7-9
husband and wife
HSK 7-9
husband's father; father-in-law / grandpa; grandad / (old) form of address for a eunuch
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *夫* | 夫* | *夫
husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)
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  *叔* | 叔* | *叔
uncle / father's younger brother / husband's younger brother / Taiwan pr. [shu2]
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  *PU* | PU* | *PU
the degree of suspicion that a woman might, after she marries, cheat on her husband (abbr. for "paternity uncertainty")
old fellow / old man / father / husband
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *娅* | 娅* | *娅
(literary) term of address between husbands of sisters / (used to transliterate foreign names) / (used in Chinese women's names)
husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma
household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL: 戶|户,
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姑* | 姑* | *姑
paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary)
former husband
man / fellow / (dialect) husband
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *俪* | 俪* | *俪
husband and wife
husband (arch.)
flying in pairs / close union as husband and wife / round-trip flight / (slang) threesome
(coll.) older sister's husband
younger sister's husband
(honorific) husband
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *丈* | 丈* | *丈
measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male
husband of mother's sister / uncle
son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister)
to separate (married couple) / to live apart (of husband and wife, family members)
(of a woman) to get married; to take a husband
(of a marriage) the bridegroom's side; the husband's side
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姒* | 姒* | *姒
wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old)
husband's older brother / father's older brother (esp. his oldest brother)
a woman who dies fighting for her honor or follows her husband in death
husband's younger brother / brother-in-law
family member / husband and wife
(of an elderly couple) husband or wife
married man; husband (as a social role)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *婿* | 婿* | *婿
son-in-law / husband
menfolk (collective term for men of different generations) / husbands and their fathers etc
lord / master / young gentleman / male prostitute / catamite / mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes / (old form of address for one's husband) husband
noble and lowly / high versus low social hierarchy of ruler to people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism
father's youngest sister / husband's younger sister; sister-in-law
great uncle / grandfather's younger brother / husband's father's younger brother
mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister
husband's family (traditionally where the wife moves into)
to bury husband and wife together / joint interment
brother-in-law / husband's younger brother
my husband and master (archaic) / playboy of rich family / pimp
(literary) husband
(coll.) husband's younger sister; sister-in-law
to change one's tune / to modify one's previous remark / to change the way one addresses sb (as when one marries and starts to call one's husband's parents 爸爸 and 媽媽|妈妈)
to treat each other as an honored guest (idiom) / mutual respect between husband and wife
husband and wife (literary)
husband's parents; parents-in-law / (dialect) a couple; husband and wife
husband's father
luan and phoenix / husband and wife / virtuous person / sovereign / belle
lit. the lioness from Hedong roars (idiom) / fig. refers to a shrewish wife or a henpecked husband
husband's sister / (coll.) Buddhist nun
chaff, husks, distillers' dregs etc (food eaten by the poor) / (fig.) rubbish / junk / (abbr. for 糟糠妻) wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband
If you marry a chicken, follow the chicken (idiom); A woman should follow whatever her husband orders. / We must learn to accept the people around us.
husbands of sisters / brothers-in-law / extremely close (of a relationship)
father's sister's husband / husband of paternal aunt / uncle
Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality , physical charm , propriety in speech and efficiency in needlework
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嫜* | 嫜* | *嫜
husband's father
(of a widow) faithful to the death to her husband's memory
mother's sister's husband / husband of mother's sister
(coll.) husband's elder brother
older sister's husband
to sacrifice one's life by loyalty (to one's prince, one's husband etc)
aunt by marriage / husband's aunt / husband's father's younger brother's wife
three principles and five virtues (idiom) / the three rules (ruler guides subject, father guides son and husband guides wife) and five constant virtues of Confucianism (benevolence , righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom and fidelity )
brother-in-law (younger sister's husband)
father's oldest sister / husband's older sister / sister-in-law
to enter a door / to go in / to learn the basics of a subject / to join one's husband's household upon marriage
husband of paternal aunt
(polite) my husband
father's brother (uncle) / husband's brother (brother-in-law)
(archaic) term used by a husband to refer to himself when speaking to his wife
old man / husband's father / father-in-law / court eunuch
sisters-in-law (old) / various concubines of a husband (old)
to be buried alive as sacrifice (together with husband or superior)
Ahab (9th c. BC), King of Israel, son of Omri and husband of Jezebel, prominent figure in 1 Kings 16-22
teacher's husband
heroine of Qin dynasty 秦朝 folk tale, who searched for her husband, and whose tears broke down a stretch of the Great Wall to reveal his body
(coll.) old man / (said of an aging husband) my old man
to stay at home while one's husband is away / grass widow
older sister's husband
to live together (as husband and wife)
(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
husband and wife / couple
wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband
the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend)
ideal husband; Mr. Right
to assist one's husband and educate the children (idiom) / the traditional roles of a good wife
father / husband / old man
husband's family (traditionally where the wife moves into)
(idiom) (of a husband and wife etc) to spend more time apart than together; to see each other very little
son's daughter's husband / granddaughter's husband

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