正室
zhèng shì
Pinyin
Definition
正室
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- first wife
- legal wife
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
Idioms (20)
上梁不正下梁歪
- 1 lit. If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked (idiom); fig. subordinates imitate their superiors' vices
不安其室
- 1 to be discontented with one's home
- 2 to have adulterous relations after marriage (of women) (idiom)
偏邪不正
- 1 biased
- 2 prejudiced (idiom)
升堂入室
- 1 lit. to reach the main room and enter the chamber (idiom)
- 2 fig. to gradually attain proficiency
- 3 to attain a higher level
同室操戈
- 1 wielding the halberd within the household (idiom); internecine strife