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妇
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Definitions
- 1. woman
Words Containing 妇
daughter-in-law
excessive tendency to clemency (idiom)
adulterous couple
maternity wear
woman (derog.)
son's son's wife
director of the local committee of the Women's Federation
the wife of 杞梁[qǐ liáng], a senior official of the state of Qi 杞[qǐ] who died on a military expedition
peasant woman (in former times)
lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom)
pregnant woman
brother's son's wife
bidet
clever wife
housewife
gynecology
child bride
younger brother's wife
department of gynecology and obstetrics
women and children
shrew
dame
fisherwoman
bride
married woman
married man
vicious wife
International Women's Day (March 8)
woodlouse
expecting mother
a (married) couple
slut
sister's son's wife
widow (formal)
women's movement
prostitute
prostitute
tempura
daughter-in-law
woman
housewife
widow
young married woman
young married woman
married woman
widow (formal)
dispute among womenfolk (idiom); family squabbles
see 媳婦熬成婆|媳妇熬成婆[xí fù ào chéng pó]
witch (esp. European)
mistress
understood by everyone (idiom); well known
shouting abuse in the street like a fishwife
Fu Hao (c. 1200 BC), or Lady Hao, female Chinese general of the late Shang Dynasty 商朝[shāng cháo]
comfort woman (woman or girl forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military 1937-1945) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 慰安婦 \ianfu\)
International Women's Day (March 8)
women's league
upper-class woman
woman recuperating after childbirth
poodle
to get oneself a wife
loose woman
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
newly married couple
fig. nowadays, women have an equal part to play in society
All-China Women's Federation (PRC, established 1949)
The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won't get anywhere without equipment.
a married couple allowed dispensation to have second child
violent woman
mistress
ordinary people; commoners
maid
female gossip
(ornithology) red bishop (Euplectes orix)
lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (idiom)
shrew
lady who has given birth twice
woman
fig. the man sings and the woman follows