媳妇 - xí fù - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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媳婦 (媳妇)

xí fù

Definition

daughter-in-law
wife (of a younger man)
young married woman
young woman

Character Decomposition

Related words (3)

娶媳婦

qǔ xí fù

to get oneself a wife; to take a daughter-in-law

sister's son's wife

child bride; girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law

Idioms (1)

媳婦熬成婆

xí fù áo chéng pó

(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

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