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妻子

qī zǐ

1. 1 wife and children

女人

nu:3 ren

1. 1 wife

配合

pèi hé

1. 1 matching
2. 2 fitting in with
3. 3 compatible with
4. 4 to correspond
5. 5 to fit
6. 6 to conform to
7. 7 rapport
8. 8 to coordinate with
9. 9 to act in concert with
10. 10 to cooperate
11. 11 to become man and wife
12. 12 to combine parts of machine

娶

qǔ

1. 1 to take a wife
2. 2 to marry (a woman)

嫂子

sǎo zi

1. 1 (coll.) older brother's wife
2. 2 sister-in-law
3. 3 classifier: 個 Gè

岳父

yuè fù

1. 1 wife's father, father-in-law

伯母

bó mǔ

1. 1 wife of father's elder brother
2. 2 aunt
3. 3 (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother)
4. 4 classifier: 個 Gè

媳妇 | 媳婦

xí fù

1. 1 daughter-in-law
2. 2 wife (of a younger man)
3. 3 young married woman
4. 4 young woman

夫妇 | 夫婦

fū fù

1. 1 a (married) couple
2. 2 husband and wife
3. 3 classifier: 對 Duì

耙耳朵

pā ěr duo

1. 1 (dialect) henpecked
2. 2 to be under one's wife's thumb

糟糠妻

zāo kāng qī

1. 1 wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband

相敬如宾 | 相敬如賓

xiāng jìng rú bīn

1. 1 to treat each other as an honored guest (idiom)
2. 2 mutual respect between husband and wife

齐人之福 | 齊人之福

Qí rén zhī fú

1. 1 lit. the happy fate of the man from Qi (who had a wife and a concubine) (idiom)
2. 2 fig. (ironically) the joy of having several partners
3. 3 the life of a pasha

妗

jìn

1. 1 wife of mother's brother

嫂嫂

sǎo sao

1. 1 older brother's wife
2. 2 sister-in-law
3. 3 (polite address to a younger married woman) sister

家眷

jiā juàn

1. 1 one's wife and children

鼓盆之戚

gǔ pén zhī qī

1. 1 drumming on a bowl in grief (idiom, refers to Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子 grieving for his lost wife)
2. 2 fig. grief for a lost wife

贤内助 | 賢內助

xián nèi zhù

1. 1 (said of sb else's wife) a good wife

稳婆 | 穩婆

wěn pó

1. 1 midwife (old term)

耦居

ǒu jū

1. 1 to live together (as husband and wife)