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- to use one's power and influence to take another man's wife for oneself
- (neologism c. 2009) wife of a gay man (the man may marry to conform with social expectations, and the woman often enters the marriage not knowing he is gay)
- wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband
- similarity in features of an old couple
- common facial traits that show predestination to be married together
- a couple in a short-lived, improper relationship
- weekend spouse
- relationship involving a sugar-daddy
Trad. 寵妾滅妻
- favor the concubine and do away with the wife (idiom)
- spoil one's mistress and neglect one's wife
Trad. 拋妻棄子
- to abandon one's wife and child(ren)
Trad. 封妻蔭子
- to bestow a title on the wife of a deserving official and make his son heir to his titles
- man and wife fall out (idiom, from Book of Changes); marital strife
- popular Sichuan cold dish made of thinly sliced beef and beef offal
- you should not covet your friend's wife (idiom)
Trad. 少年夫妻老來伴
- husband and wife in youth, companions in old age
Trad. 醜妻近地家中寶
- an ugly wife is a treasure at home (idiom)