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The Chinese word for father-in-law is
岳父

yue fu (yuè fù)


Chinese Definition


father-in-law
     1. 公公
     2.
     3. 岳父
Components
     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 ?
     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 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)


     1. (archaic) the father and mother of a woman's husband


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