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妻
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Definitions
- 1. to marry off (a daughter)
Example Sentences
1 shown我 妻 子。
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Words Containing 妻
to be bereaved of one's wife
you should not covet your friend's wife (idiom)
you, my beloved wife
wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband
fiancée
see 夫妻相[fū qī xiàng]
lit. one husband one wife
polygamy
(neologism c. 2009) wife of a gay man (the man may marry to conform with social expectations, and the woman often enters the marriage not knowing he is gay)
to take a wife
to bestow a title on the wife of a deserving official and make his son heir to his titles
favor the concubine and do away with the wife (idiom)
wife
common facial traits that show predestination to be married together
not yet married
to repudiate one's wife
lovely wife
polygamy
ex-wife
to abandon wife and children
wife and children
an ugly wife is a treasure at home (idiom)
married woman; wife (as a social role)
weekend spouse
a good wife and loving mother
wife and child
first wife
monogamy
a family wrenched apart (idiom)
man and wife fall out (idiom, from Book of Changes); marital strife
wife
family-run shop
wife swapping
to use one's power and influence to take another man's wife for oneself
husband and wife; married couple
wives and concubines (of a polygamous man)
a couple in a short-lived, improper relationship
widow
henpecked male