The Chinese word for father-in-law is
岳父
yue fu (yuè fù)Chinese Definition
father-in-law | |
1. 公公 | |
2. 翁 | |
3. 岳父 | |
Components | |
岳 | |
1. (Alternative form *嶽) tall mountain | |
2. (historical) name of a mountain ((generally interpreted as Mount Song (Eno, 2009))) | |
3. parent-in-law | |
^岳 ^飛 - Yue Fei | |
4. Simplified form of 嶽 | |
5. Variant of ? | |
父 | |
1. father | |
父親 (fùqīn) - (formal) father | |
父母 (fùmǔ) - parents; father and mother | |
父子 (fùzǐ) - father and son | |
父女 (fùnǚ) - father and daughter | |
父輩 (fùbèi) - one's father's generation | |
家父 (jiāfù) - (humble) my father | |
生父 (shēngfù) - biological father | |
養父 (yǎngfù) - adoptive father | |
繼父 (jìfù) - stepfather | |
天父 (tiānfù) - (Christianity) Heavenly Father | |
國父 (guófù) - father of a nation; (specifically) Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen) | |
雜交 水稻 之 父 (zájiāo shuǐdào zhī fù) - (specifically) Father of Hybrid Rice (Yuan Longping) | |
Antonyms: 母 | |
2. (Used to address a male elder member of a family.) | |
祖父 (zǔfù) - paternal grandfather (one's father's father) | |
伯父 (bófù) - paternal uncle (father's elder brother) | |
叔父 (shūfù) - paternal uncle (father's younger brother) | |
岳父 (yuèfù) - father-in-law (wife's father) | |
舅父 (jiùfù) - maternal uncle (mother's brother) | |
姨父 (yífù) - maternal uncle (husband of mother's sister) | |
姑父 (gūfù) - paternal uncle (husband of father's sister) | |
Antonyms: 母 | |
3. (literary, respectful) old man; elderly man | |
漁父fǔ (yúfǔ) - old fisherman | |
田父fǔ (tiánfǔ) - old farmer | |
4. (literary) Alternative form of 甫 ((honorific suffix used after a man's name;) courtesy name) | |
^梁父fǔ山(^梁甫山) (Liángfǔshān (Liángfǔshān)) - Mount Liangfu (alternately, Mount Liangfu) (in Shandong, China) |
Translations for 父 and their definitions
公公 | |
1. n. (Mandarin, Gan, Jin, Wu) father-in-law (husband's father) | |
2. n. (archaic) eunuch | |
3. n. (archaic) Grand Preceptor | |
4. n. (dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese, dialectal Gan, dialectal Wu) maternal grandfather | |
5. n. (dialectal Mandarin, Gan, dialectal Hakka, Huizhou, Handan Jin, Min Bei, Xiang, dialectal Wu) paternal grandfather | |
6. n. old man; elderly man |
岳父 | |
1. n. father-in-law (wife's father) |
嫜 | |
1. (archaic) the father and mother of a woman's husband |
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