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- (slang) father; dad (playful honorific, orthographic borrowing from Japanese "chichi-ue")
Trad. 國父
- father or founder of a nation
- Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen)
Trad. 為父
- term used by a father to refer to himself when speaking to his child
Trad. 黃父鬼
- Huang Fugui, ghost of legends who provided Liu Juanzi with his magical recipes 劉涓子鬼遺方|刘涓子鬼遗方
- Abba (Aramaic word father)
- by ext. God the Father in Christian gospel
- benevolent father, filial son (idiom)
- natural love between parents and children
- in the Name of the Father (in Christian worship)
Trad. 認賊作父
- lit. to acknowledge the bandit as one's father (idiom); fig. a complete betrayal
- to sell oneself to the enemy
Trad. 炸彈之父
- Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power (ATBIP), or Father of All Bombs, a powerful Russian bomb
- in place of sb's parents
- in loco parentis (law)
Trad. 造父變星
- (astronomy) Cepheid variable star
- the people one depends upon for one's livelihood
- one's bread and butter
Trad. 同母異父
- (of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers
- half (brother or sister)
- like a second parent (idiom); one's great benefactor
Trad. 同父異母
- (of siblings) having the same father but different mothers
- half (brother or sister)
Trad. 子承父業
- (idiom) (of a son) to carry on one's father's business or profession
Trad. 虎父無犬子
- lit. father a lion, son cannot be a dog (honorific); With a distinguished father such as you, the son is sure to do well.
- like father, like son
- nobody understands one's son better than his father (idiom)
- like father, like son (idiom)
Trad. 無顏見江東父老
- (idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3], who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)
- (idiom) parents' orders and matchmaker's services (in establishing an arranged marriage)
Trad. 一日為師，終身為父
- (idiom) teacher for one day, father forever; students should have deep respect and lifelong gratitude for their teachers