- 妻子 qī zǐ: 妻子 qi1 zi3: wife and children妻子 qī zi: 妻子 qi1 zi5: wife
- village; (dialect) to scold; rustic; boorish
- 曹 cáo: 曹 cao2: class or grade; generation; plaintiff and defendant (old); government department (old)曹 Cáo: 曹 Cao2: surname Cao; Zhou Dynasty vassal state
- family name; surname; to be surnamed ...
- 家 jiā: 家 jia1: used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1 ju4]家 jiā: 家 jia1: home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian; CL:個|个[ge4]
- girl; young woman; young lady; daughter; paternal aunt (old); CL:個|个[ge4]
- person (first person, second person etc in grammar); called; known as
- although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是[ke3 shi4] or 但是[dan4 shi4] etc)
- to live; life; livelihood
- common; ordinary; general; average
- 农家 nóng jiā: 农家 nong2 jia1: peasant family农家 Nóng jiā: 农家 Nong2 jia1: School of Agriculture, school of thought of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
- but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just
- nature; disposition; innate; natural
- opportunely; coincidentally; as it happens; skillful; timely
- mouth; beak; nozzle; spout (of teapot etc); CL:張|张[zhang1],個|个[ge4]
- glib of tongue (idiom); eloquent
- one's own view; definite opinion
- 会 hùi: 会 hui4: can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3])会 kuài: 会 kuai4: (bound form) to reckon accounts
- to live one's life; to pass one's days; to get along
- everyone; every person
- 夸 kuā: 夸 kua1: used in transliteration夸 kuā: 夸 kua1: to boast; to exaggerate; to praise
- to take a wife; to marry (a woman)
- 媳妇 xí fù: 媳妇 xi2 fu4: daughter-in-law; wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation媳妇 xí fu: 媳妇 xi2 fu5: (dialect) wife; (dialect) young married woman
- (coll.) young married couple
- after; later; afterwards; following; later on; in the future
- to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire); to live; to be alive; life; raw; uncooked; unprocessed; unfamiliar; strange; (bound form) student; person engaged in a field; (bound form) male role in traditional opera; (bound form) life; lifetime; (bound form) means of livelihood; (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]); (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- boy
- to name; to christen; to take a name
- Cathay Pacific (Hong Kong airline)
- grand reputation; renowned; famous
- generally; in general
- (idiom) to stand out from the crowd; distinctive; different from the rest
- person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc); (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting
- to be born
- (bound form) general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 總經理|总经理[zong3 jing1 li3] or 總編|总编[zong3 bian1] etc
- strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled
- affair; matter; thing; business; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
- like this; so; such
- all one's life; throughout one's life
- to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders)
- front tooth; incisor
- physical strength