寄父
jì fù
Pinyin

Definition

寄父
 - 
jì fù
  1. foster father

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

父母
fù mǔ
  1. 1 father and mother
  2. 2 parents
父亲
fù qīn
  1. 1 father
  2. 2 also pr. [fù qin]
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè]
姑父
gū fu
  1. 1 father's sister's husband
  2. 2 husband of paternal aunt
  3. 3 uncle
姨父
yí fu
  1. 1 husband of mother's sister
  2. 2 uncle
寄
jì
  1. 1 to send
  2. 2 to mail
  3. 3 to entrust
  4. 4 to depend on
  5. 5 to attach oneself to
  6. 6 to live (in a house)
  7. 7 to lodge
  8. 8 foster (son etc)
寄出
jì chū
  1. 1 to mail
  2. 2 to send by post
寄生
jì shēng
  1. 1 to live in or on another organism as a parasite
  2. 2 to live by taking advantage of others
  3. 3 parasitism
  4. 4 parasitic
寄托
jì tuō
  1. 1 to entrust (to sb)
  2. 2 to place (one's hope, energy etc) in
  3. 3 a thing in which you invest (your hope, energy etc)
寄养
jì yǎng
  1. 1 to place in the care of sb (a child, pet etc)
  2. 2 to foster
  3. 3 to board out
岳父
yuè fù
  1. 1 wife's father, father-in-law
师父
shī fu
  1. 1 used for 師傅|师傅 (in Taiwan)
  2. 2 master
  3. 3 qualified worker
教父
jiào fù
  1. 1 godfather
父
fù
  1. 1 father
父女
fù nu:3
  1. 1 father and daughter
父子
fù zǐ
  1. 1 father and son
父爱
fù ài
  1. 1 paternal love
父母亲
fù mǔ qīn
  1. 1 parents
父老
fù lǎo
  1. 1 elders
神父
shén fu
  1. 1 Christian priest or clergyman
  2. 2 (spiritual) father
舅父
jiù fù
  1. 1 mother's brother
  2. 2 maternal uncle

Idioms (11)

一日为师，终身为父
yī rì wéi shī , zhōng shēn wéi fù
  1. 1 lit. teacher for one day, father for ever (idiom)
再生父母
zài shēng fù mǔ
  1. 1 like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor
千里寄鹅毛
qiān lǐ jì é máo
  1. 1 goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it
  2. 2 also written 千里送鵝毛|千里送鹅毛
在家靠父母，出外靠朋友
zài jiā kào fù mǔ , chū wài kào péng you
  1. 1 one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
在家靠父母，出门靠朋友
zài jiā kào fù mǔ , chū mén kào péng you
  1. 1 one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
寄人篱下
jì rén lí xià
  1. 1 to lodge under another person's roof (idiom); to live relying on sb else's charity
有其父必有其子
yǒu qí fù bì yǒu qí zǐ
  1. 1 like father, like son (idiom)
无颜见江东父老
wú yán jiàn Jiāng dōng fù lǎo
  1. 1 (idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiàng Yǔ], who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)
父慈子孝
fù cí zǐ xiào
  1. 1 benevolent father, filial son (idiom)
  2. 2 natural love between parents and children
知子莫若父
zhī zǐ mò ruò fù
  1. 1 nobody understands one's son better than his father (idiom)
认贼作父
rèn zéi zuò fù
  1. 1 lit. to acknowledge the bandit as one's father (idiom); fig. a complete betrayal
  2. 2 to sell oneself to the enemy

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