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Trad. 媳婦
- daughter-in-law
- wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation
Trad. 小媳婦
- young married woman
- mistress
- (fig.) punching bag
- (old) child bride
Trad. 童養媳
- child bride
- girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law
Trad. 兒媳婦兒
- erhua form of 兒媳婦|儿媳妇[er2 xi2 fu4]
Trad. 童養媳婦
- child bride
- girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law
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. 多年媳婦熬成婆
- see 媳婦熬成婆|媳妇熬成婆[xi2 fu4 ao4 cheng2 po2]
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