1 husband

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 father's younger brother

2 uncle

3 Taiwan pr. [shú shu]

4 classifier: 个 gè

1 eldest of father's younger brothers

2 uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father)

1 mother

2 also pr. [mǔ qin]

3 classifier: 个 gè

1 father and mother

2 parents

1 lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)

2 fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline

3 to take a dive

1 lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom)

2 fig. at a total loss

1 like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor

1 one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)

1 one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)