"Daughter" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 nu:3 ér daughter
 gū niang girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL:個|个[ge4]
 nu:3 female / woman / daughter
 qiān jīn thousand jin 斤 / (pounds) of gold / money and riches / (honorific) invaluable (support) / (honorific) daughter
 shī jiě senior female fellow student or apprentice / daughter (older than oneself) of one's teacher
 shī mèi junior female student or apprentice / daughter (younger than oneself) of one's teacher
 guī nu: maiden / unmarried woman / daughter
 guī nu:3 maiden / unmarried woman / daughter
 nān child / daughter
 péi qián huò unprofitable goods / item that can only be sold at a loss / daughter (so called in former times because daughters required a dowry when they married)
 guī nu:5 maiden / unmarried woman / (coll.) daughter
 yù nu:3 beautiful woman / fairy maiden attending the Daoist immortals / (polite) sb else's daughter / Chinese dodder (Cuscuta chinensis), plant whose seeds are used for TCM
 mǔ nu:3 mother and daughter / mother-daughter
 sūn nu:3 son's daughter / granddaughter
 fù nu:3 father and daughter
 zhí nu:3 niece / brother's daughter
 xiǎo nu:3 my daughter (humble)
 Bǐ yà Bia, daughter of Pallas and Styx in Greek mythology, personification of violence
 yǎng nu:3 adopted daughter
 gū nǎi nai paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister) / (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter / (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I / me / this lady here / (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach
 zhǎng nu:3 eldest daughter
 dú shēng nu:3 an only daughter
 xiǎo jiā bì yù pretty daughter in a humble family
 wài sheng nu:3 sister's daughter / wife's sibling's daughter
 xiào dao filial piety (Confucian virtue) / to be a good son or daughter
 wài sūn nu:3 daughter's daughter / granddaughter
 Jīng wèi mythological bird, reincarnation of drowned daughter Nüwa 女娃[Nu:3 wa2] of Fiery Emperor 炎帝[Yan2 di4]
 yì nu:3 adopted daughter
 lìng ài your precious daughter
 cì nu:3 second daughter
 jià (of a woman) to marry / to marry off a daughter / to shift (blame etc)
 ài your daughter (honorific)
 dà jiā guī xiù girl from a wealthy family / unmarried daughter of a noble house
 gān nu:3 ér adopted daughter (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
 zǐ xì bāo daughter cell
 nu:3 gōng zǐ noble lady / (honorific) your daughter
 jià nu:3 to marry off a daughter
 yù rén chuī xiāo virtuoso piper wins a beauty / the xiao 簫|箫[xiao1] (mouth organ) virtuoso 蕭史|萧史[Xiao1 Shi3] won for his wife the beautiful daughter of Duke Mu of Qin 秦穆公[Qin2 Mu4 gong1]
·  Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda
槿 Piáo Jǐn huì Park Geun-hye (1952-), Korean politician, daughter of former dictator Park Chung-Hee 朴正熙[Piao2 Zheng4 xi1], president of Korea 2013-2017
 dà xiǎo jie eldest daughter of an affluent family / (polite) your daughter / bossy or indulged young woman / Miss High and Mighty
 wàng nu:3 chéng fèng lit. to hope one's daughter becomes a phoenix (idiom) / fig. to hope one's daughter is a success in life
 Bèi · Bù tuō Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda
 Bèi nà qí ěr · Bù tuō Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda
 biǎo zhí nu:3 daughter of a male cousin via female line
 jì nu:3 foster daughter
 yóu zǐ (old) brother's son or daughter / nephew
· Bèi nà qí ěr · Bù tuō Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996
· Bèi · Bù tuō Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996
 huáng dì nu:3 ér bù chóu jià lit. the emperor's daughter does not worry about whether she will be able to marry (idiom) / fig. highly sought after
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