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Trad. 主婦
- housewife
- woman of senior authority in a household
- the lady of the house
- hostess
Trad. 杞婦
- the wife of 杞梁[Qi3 Liang2], a senior official of the state of Qi 杞[Qi3] who died on a military expedition
- (fig.) a widow
Trad. 巧婦
- clever wife
- ingenious housewife
- Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
Trad. 婦好
- Fu Hao (c. 1200 BC), or Lady Hao, female Chinese general of the late Shang Dynasty 商朝[Shang1 chao2]
Trad. 婦檢
- gynecological examination (abbr. for 婦科檢查|妇科检查[fu4 ke1 jian3 cha2])
Trad. 媳婦
- daughter-in-law
- wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation
Trad. 慰安婦
- comfort woman (woman or girl forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military 1937-1945) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 慰安婦 "ianfu")
Trad. 小媳婦
- young married woman
- mistress
- (fig.) punching bag
- (old) child bride
Trad. 婦產科
- department of gynecology and obstetrics
- birth clinic
Trad. 紅寡婦鳥
- (ornithology) red bishop (Euplectes orix)
Trad. 兒媳婦兒
- erhua form of 兒媳婦|儿媳妇[er2 xi2 fu4]
Trad. 雙獨夫婦
- a married couple allowed dispensation to have second child
Trad. 婦人之仁
- excessive tendency to clemency (idiom)
- soft-hearted (pejorative)
Trad. 婦女主任
- director of the local committee of the Women's Federation
Trad. 潑婦罵街
- shouting abuse in the street like a fishwife
Trad. 婦姑勃谿
- dispute among womenfolk (idiom); family squabbles
Trad. 婦孺皆知
- understood by everyone (idiom); well known
- a household name
Trad. 童養媳婦
- child bride
- girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law
Trad. 夫唱婦隨
- fig. the man sings and the woman follows
- fig. marital harmony
Trad. 國際婦女節
- International Women's Day (March 8)
Trad. 媳婦熬成婆
- lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom)
- fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor
- what goes around comes around
Trad. 婦女能頂半邊天
- Woman can hold up half the sky
- fig. nowadays, women have an equal part to play in society
Trad. 多年媳婦熬成婆
- see 媳婦熬成婆|媳妇熬成婆[xi2 fu4 ao4 cheng2 po2]
Trad. 巧婦難為無米之炊
- The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won't get anywhere without equipment.
Trad. 中華全國婦女聯合會
- All-China Women's Federation (PRC, established 1949)
Trad. 醜媳婦早晚也得見公婆
- lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (idiom)
- fig. it's not something you can avoid forever