permanent member state (of the UN Security Council)
老小
lǎo xiǎo
the old and the young / the youngest member of the family
吴邦国
Wú Bāng guó
Wu Bangguo (1941-), PRC electrical engineer and politician, politburo member 1992-2012
红领巾
hóng lǐng jīn
red neckscarf / by extension, a member of the Young Pioneers
彭德怀
Péng Dé huái
Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo member, disgraced after attacking Mao's failed policies in 1959, and died after extensive persecution during the Cultural Revolution
贾庆林
Jiǎ Qìng lín
Jia Qinglin (1940-), member of the Politburo Standing Committee 2002-2012
Hui Liangyu (1944-) PRC Hui national career politician from Guilin, background in economics, politburo member 2002-2012, deputy chair of State Council 2003-2013
to enter / to go into / to join / to become a member of / (bound form) to conform to (as in 入時|入时[ru4shi2]) / abbr. for 入聲|入声[ru4sheng1] / (on product packaging, after {number n} + {classifier}) containing (n pieces) (from Japanese 入 / "iri")
入赘
rù zhuì
to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family
近臣
jìn chén
member of a monarch's inner ministerial circle (old)
康生
Kāng Shēng
Kang Sheng (1896-1975), Chinese communist leader, a politburo member during the Cultural Revolution and posthumously blamed for some of its excesses
共和党人
gòng hé dǎng rén
a Republican party member
裙带
qún dài
waistband of a skirt / (fig.) related to the wife or another female family member
Zhang Zhixin (1930-1975) female revolutionary and martyr, who followed the true Marxist-Leninist line as a party member, and was arrested in 1969, then executed in 1975 after opposing the counterrevolutionary party-usurping conspiracies of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, and only rehabilitated posthumously in 1979
lit. to play the yu 竽 / mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom) / fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products / to masquerade as having an ability / token member of a group
覆巢无完卵
fù cháo wú wán luǎn
lit. when the nest overturns no egg remains intact / no member escapes unscathed from a family disaster (idiom)
yuán