干娘 (乾娘)
gān niáng
Pinyin
Definition
干娘 (乾娘)
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- adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
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 yin and yang
- 2 heaven and earth
- 3 the universe
Idioms (5)
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
扭转乾坤
- 1 lit. to upend heaven and earth (idiom)
- 2 fig. to change the course of events
- 3 to turn things around
旋乾转坤
- 1 lit. overturning heaven and earth (idiom); earth-shattering
- 2 a radical change
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
朝乾夕惕
- 1 cautious and diligent all day long (idiom)