姑丈
gū zhàng
Pinyin

Definition

姑丈
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gū zhàng
  1. husband of paternal aunt

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

zhàng fu
  1. 1 husband
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
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
zhàng mǔ niáng
  1. 1 wife's mother
  2. 2 mother-in-law
  3. 3 same as: 丈母
dà gū
  1. 1 father's oldest sister
  2. 2 husband's older sister
  3. 3 sister-in-law
  1. 1 paternal aunt
  2. 2 husband's sister
  3. 3 husband's mother (old)
  4. 4 nun
  5. 5 for the time being (literary)

Idioms (12)

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
三姑六婆
sān gū liù pó
  1. 1 women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)
姑息养奸
gū xī yǎng jiān
  1. 1 to tolerate is to nurture an evildoer (idiom); spare the rod and spoil the child
姑置勿论
gū zhì wù lùn
  1. 1 to put something aside for the time being (idiom)

Sample Sentences

你看吧!我是中文记忆,把你扛回家的是姑丈!
nǐ kàn ba !wǒ shì Zhōngwén jìyì ,bǎ nǐ káng huíjiā de shì gūzhàng !
See! I have a Chinese memory. It was my dad's sister's husband who carried you back home!
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