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mẹ chồng

mother-in-law
Noun
mother-in-law

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1 senses 2 Components
Meaning
1 senses
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Sense 1 Noun
mother-in-law Family, Relationships & Life EventsTheme FamilyTag

The mother of a person's husband, viewed in the context of their relationship within a family through marriage.

vi Mối quan hệ giữa mẹ chồng và nàng dâu trong gia đình ấy rất tốt đẹp.

en The relationship between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in that family is very good.

Parts
mẹ / chồng / 媄𠽚
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Components

Components

mẹ chồng
Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
媄𠽚
Candidates by syllable
mẹ 媄 chồng 𠽚（𥔧 / 𨤯）
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
Use
cha mẹ / mẹ đẻ / mẹ nó / bố mẹ …
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mẹ (mother) — words using
chồng (husband) — words using

Themes and tags

Family, Relationships & Life EventsTheme
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