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
Su Shi (1037-1101), also known as Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡[Su1 Dong1 po1] northern Song Dynasty writer and calligrapher / one of the Three Su father and sons 三蘇|三苏[San1 Su1] and one of the Eight Giants of Tang and Song Prose 唐宋八大家[Tang2 Song4 Ba1 Da4 jia1]
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)
亚伯拉罕
Yà bó lā hǎn
Abraham (name) / Abraham, father of Judaism and Islam in the Bible and Quran / same as Ibrahim 易卜拉辛
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
to dawdle / the name of the father of the Emperor Yao
马但
Mǎ dàn
Matthan, son of Eleazar and father of Jakob in Matthew 1.15
撒督
Sǎ dū
Zadok (son of Azor and father of Achim in Matthew 1:13)
隋炀帝
Suí Yáng dì
Emperor Yang of Sui (569-618), said to have murdered his father and brother to seize the throne, reigned 604-618
玄武门之变
Xuán wǔ mén zhī biàn
Xuanwu gate coup of June 626 in early Tang, in which Li Shimin 李世民 / killed his brothers, seized the throne from his father as Emperor Taizong 唐太宗
亚所
Yà suǒ
Azor (son of Eliakim and father of Zadok in Matthew 1:13-14)
以利亚敬
Yǐ lì yà jìng
Eliakim (name, Hebrew: God will raise up) / Eliakim, servant of the Lord in Isaiah 22:20 / Eliakim, son of Abiud and father of Azor in Matthew 1:13
五常
wǔ cháng
five constant virtues of Confucianism, namely: benevolence 仁, righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom 智 / and fidelity 信 / five cardinal relationships of Confucianism (between ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, brothers, friends) / five phases of Chinese philosophy: water 水, fire 火, wood 木, metal 金, earth 土
亚父
yà fù
(term of respect) second only to father / like a father (to me)
伍奢
Wǔ shē
Wu She (-522 BC), powerful minister of Chu and father of Wu Zixu 伍子胥
俄底浦斯
E2 dǐ pǔ sī
Oedipus, legendary king of Thebes who killed his father and married his mother
dà