娶媳妇 (娶媳婦)
qǔ xí fù
Pinyin

Definition

娶媳妇 (娶媳婦)
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qǔ xí fù
  1. to get oneself a wife
  2. to take a daughter-in-law

Character Decomposition

Related Words (19)

  1. 1 to take a wife
  2. 2 to marry (a woman)
ér xí fu
  1. 1 daughter-in-law
xí fù
  1. 1 daughter-in-law
  2. 2 wife (of a younger man)
  3. 3 young married woman
  4. 4 young woman
xí fu r
  1. 1 wife
  2. 2 young married woman
ér xí
  1. 1 daughter-in-law

Idioms (2)

媳妇熬成婆
xí fù áo chéng pó
  1. 1 lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor
  3. 3 what goes around comes around
丑媳妇早晚也得见公婆
chǒu xí fù zǎo wǎn yě děi jiàn gōng pó
  1. 1 lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. it's not something you can avoid forever