姨娘
yí niáng
Pinyin
Definition
姨娘
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- maternal aunt
- father's concubine (old)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 mother
- 2 young lady
- 3 (coll.) effeminate
- 1 my old mother
- 2 I, this old woman
- 3 my old lady (colloquial)
- 4 maternal grandmother
- 5 midwife
- 1 maternal aunt
- 2 step-mother
- 3 childcare worker
- 4 nursemaid
- 5 woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child)
- 6 classifier: 个 gè
Idioms (2)
天要落雨,娘要嫁人
- 1 the rain will fall, the womenfolk will marry (idiom)
- 2 fig. the natural order of things
- 3 something you can't go against
有奶便是娘
- 1 lit. whoever provides milk is your mother (idiom)
- 2 fig. to follow whoever is feeding you
- 3 to put one's loyalties where one's interests lie