identity / aspect of one's identity (i.e. sth that one is &ndash / mayor, father, permanent resident etc) / role / capacity (as in "in his capacity as a ..." 以…的身份[yi3 xx5 de5 shen1 fen4]) / status (social, legal etc) / position / rank
Sima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4], known as the father of Chinese historiography
贵贱
guì jiàn
noble and lowly / high versus low social hierarchy of ruler to people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism
令尊
lìng zūn
Your esteemed father (honorific)
吕不韦
Lu:3 Bù wéi
Lü / Buwei (?291-235 BC), merchant and politician of the State of Qin 秦國|秦国[Qin2 guo2], subsequent Qin Dynasty 秦代[Qin2 dai4] Chancellor, allegedly the father of Ying Zheng 嬴政[Ying2 Zheng4], who subsequently became the first emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2]
Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015), founding father of modern Singapore, prime minister 1959-1990
异父
yì fù
with different father (e.g. of half-brother)
六亲
liù qīn
six close relatives, namely: father 父[fu4], mother 母[mu3], older brothers 兄[xiong1], younger brothers 弟[di4], wife 妻[qi1], male children 子[zi3] / one's kin
图灵
Tú líng
Alan Turing (1912-1954), English mathematician, considered as the father of computer science
founding figure (of a country or dynasty) / founding father / fig. also used of company or school etc
三从四德
sān cóng sì dé
Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality 德[de2], physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 / and efficiency in needlework 功
三纲五常
sān gāng wǔ cháng
three principles and five virtues (idiom) / the three rules (ruler guides subject, father guides son and husband guides wife) and five constant virtues of Confucianism (benevolence 仁, righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom 智 / and fidelity 信)
variant of 鮌|鲧 / Gun, mythical father of Yu the Great 大禹
父慈子孝
fù cí zǐ xiào
benevolent father, filial son (idiom) / natural love between parents and children
知子莫若父
zhī zǐ mò ruò fù
nobody understands one's son better than his father (idiom)
曹操
Cáo Cāo
Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕 / the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义
圣父
Shèng Fù
Holy Father / God the Father (in the Christian Trinity)
姨婆
yí pó
(strictly speaking) sister of one's maternal grandmother / (more broadly) grandaunt / sister of one's mother's mother or mother's father / (Tw) (old) husband's maternal aunt
干爹
gān diē
adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
希波克拉底
Xī bō kè lā dǐ
Hippocrates (c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC), Greek physician, father of Western medicine
老佛爷
Lǎo fó yé
title of respect for the queen mother or the emperor's father / nickname for Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4]
波洛涅斯
Bō luò niè sī
Polonius (name) / Shakespearean character, father of Ophelia, accidentally killed by Hamlet
Sima Tan (-110 BC), Han dynasty scholar and historian, and father of 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1]
周文王
Zhōu Wén wáng
King Wen of Zhou state (c. 1152-1056 BC), reigned c. 1099-1056 BC as king of Zhou state, leading figure in building the subsequent Western Zhou dynasty, father of King Wu of Zhou 周武王[Zhou1 Wu3 wang2] the first Zhou dynasty king
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]
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