| 费诺儿子 | fèi nuò ér zǐ | Sons |  |
| 子女 | zǐ nu:3 | children / sons and daughters |  |
| 儿女 | ér nu:3 | children / sons and daughters / a young man and a young woman (in love) | |
| 堂兄弟 | táng xiōng dì | father's brother's sons / paternal male cousin | |
| 三苏 | Sān Sū | the Three Su's (famous Song dynasty writers Su Xun 蘇洵|苏洵[Su1 Xun2] and his sons Su Shi 蘇軾|苏轼[Su1 Shi4] and Su Zhe 蘇轍|苏辙[Su1 Zhe2]) | |
| 龙生九子 | lóng shēng jiǔ zǐ | lit. the dragon has nine sons (idiom) / fig. all kinds of characters / good and bad intermingled / It takes all sorts to make a world. | |
| 三曹 | Sān Cáo | the Three Caos (Cao Cao 曹操 / and his sons Cao Pi 曹丕 / and Cao Zhi 曹植), who established the Wei or Cao Wei dynasty 曹魏, and were all three noted poets and calligraphers | |
| 不孝有三，无后为大 | bù xiào yǒu sān , wú hòu wéi dà | there are three ways to be unfilial / having no sons is the worst (from Mencius 孟子[Meng4zi3]) | |
| 唐宋八大家 | Táng Sòng bā dà jiā | Eight Giants of Tang and Song prose, esp. involved in the Classics movement 古文運動|古文运动[gu3 wen2 yun4 dong4], namely: Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈[Han2 Yu4], Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元[Liu3 Zong1 yuan2], Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修[Ou1 yang2 Xiu1], the Three Su father and sons 三蘇|三苏[San1 Su1], Wang Anshi 王安石[Wang2 An1 shi2], Zeng Gong 曾鞏|曾巩[Zeng1 Gong3] | |
| 多子多福 | duō zǐ duō fú | the more sons, the more happiness (idiom) | |
| 有子存焉 | yǒu zǐ cún yān | I still have sons, don't I? / fig. future generations will continue the work | |
| 贔屃 | bì xì | Bixi, one of the nine sons of a dragon with the form of a tortoise, also known as 龜趺|龟趺[gui1 fu1] | |
| 术赤 | Zhú chì | Jöchi (c. 1182-1227) Mongol army commander, eldest of Genghis Khan’s four sons | |
