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wife noun—妻 n (almost always used) 妻子 n (often used) Examples:He Zizhen (1910-1984), Mao Zedong's third wife—Yang Kaihui (1901-1930), Mao Zedong's second wife—five cardinal relationships of Confucianism (between ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, brothers, friends)—Luo Yixiu (1889-1910), Mao Zedong's first wife—Communist Party official whose wife and children have left China reside in a foreign country—abandon wife and children—Xanthippe, Socrates' wife—high versus low social hierarchy of ruler people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism—wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother—fig. refers a shrewish wife or a henpecked husband—live apart (of husband and wife, family members)—the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend)—Houyi, mythological Chinese archer whose wife was Chang'e—Soong Mei-ling or Song Meiling (1898-2003), Chiang Kai-shek's wife (subsequently widow)—Jiang Qing (1914-1991), Mao Zedong's fourth wife and leader of the Gang of Four—wife's brother's wife, sister-in-law—man and wife fall out (idiom, from Book of Changes); marital strife—(of a deserving official) grant his wife a title and make his son heir to his titles—Rhea, wife of Chronos and mother of Zeus in Greek mythology—wife kids and a warm bed (common saying); the simple and good life—wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old)—formal wife of a Xiongnu chief during the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)— |