丈母娘
zhàng mǔ niáng
Pinyin

Definition

丈母娘
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zhàng mǔ niáng
  1. wife's mother
  2. mother-in-law
  3. same as 丈母

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

丈夫
zhàng fu
  1. 1 husband
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
姑娘
gū niang
  1. 1 girl
  2. 2 young woman
  3. 3 young lady
  4. 4 daughter
  5. 5 paternal aunt (old)
  6. 6 classifier: 个 gè
娘
niáng
  1. 1 mother
  2. 2 young lady
  3. 3 (coll.) effeminate
母亲
mǔ qīn
  1. 1 mother
  2. 2 also pr. [mǔ qin]
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
父母
fù mǔ
  1. 1 father and mother
  2. 2 parents

Idioms (11)

一落千丈
yī luò qiān zhàng
  1. 1 lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline
  3. 3 to take a dive
丈二和尚，摸不着头脑
zhàng èr hé shang , mō bu zháo tóu nǎo
  1. 1 lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. at a total loss
再生父母
zài shēng fù mǔ
  1. 1 like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor
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)

Sample Sentences

好女婿，你丈母娘老夸你呢！
hǎo nǚxu ，nǐ zhàngmuniáng lǎo kuā nǐ ne ！
You're a good son-in-law. Your mother-in-law is always speaking highly of you!
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别提了，我儿子只知道去丈母娘家！
bié tí le ，wǒ érzi zhǐ zhīdào qù zhàngmuniáng jiā ！
Don't bring it up. My son only ever thinks about going to his mother-in-law's!
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去我丈母娘屋里搓麻将。
tɕ’i ŋu zã mu niã oʔ li ts’o mo tɕiã 。
I'm going to my mother-in-law's to play mahjong.
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是的呀，今朝丈母娘生日，阿拉老婆已经豁翎子给我了。
zi tiIʔ ia ，tɕin tsɔ zã mu niã sã niIʔ ，aʔ laʔ lɔ bu ɦi tɕin huaʔ lin tsi po ŋu leʔ 。
Yeah, today is my mother-in-law's birthday, my wife already warned me.
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