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- queen
- empress
- imperial concubine
- Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
- mother
- aunt
- (dialect) form of address for one's wife
- polite form of address for a woman
Trad. 乾娘
- adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
- my old mother
- I, this old woman
- my old lady (colloquial)
- maternal grandmother
- midwife
Trad. 紅姑娘
- Chinese lantern plant
- winter cherry
- strawberry ground-cherry
- Physalis alkekengi
Trad. 幹你娘
- (Tw) (vulgar) fuck you! (literally, "fuck your mother")
- (of a wife) to return to her parental home
- (fig.) to return to one's old place, job, school etc
- Peranakan Chinese (Baba-Nyonya), an ethnic group of Chinese residing in the Malay peninsula (also known as Straits Chinese)
- Myrtaceae (family including myrtle, rosemary, oregano etc)
- middle-aged but still attractive woman
- lady of a certain age
- middle-aged but still attractive woman
- lady of a certain age
- another name for Xi Wangmu 西王母, Queen Mother of the West
- lit. whoever provides milk is your mother (idiom)
- fig. to follow whoever is feeding you
- to put one's loyalties where one's interests lie
- see 有奶便是娘[you3 nai3 bian4 shi4 niang2]
Trad. 紅色孃子軍
- Red Detachment of Women, revolutionary opera that premiered in 1964
- the rain will fall, the womenfolk will marry (idiom)
- fig. the natural order of things
- something you can't go against