DAUGHTER-IN-LAW    媳婦

SON's WIFE.
Modern Chinese Criteria
媳婦 媳 婦 兒婦 兒媳 兒媳婦兒 子婦 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • IN-LAWS　RELATIVES BECAUSE of MARRIAGE. (anc: 8/0, child: 1)
  • RELATIVES　HUMANS who HAVE COMMON ANCESTORS. (anc: 7/0, child: 6)
  • HUMAN　ANIMAL which HAS TWO LEGS AND LACKS FEATHERS. (anc: 6/0, child: 31)
Other Hypernyms
  • WIFE　MARRIED FEMALE MATE. (anc: 9/0, child: 5)
  • MATE　ADULT with whom one COPULATES. (anc: 8/0, child: 4)
  • ADULT　HUMAN who is SUFFICIENTLY OLD to ESTABLISH his/her SEPARATE HOME. (anc: 7/0, child: 20)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 2.64

  • Histoire des moeurs ( POIRIER 1991) p. 2.535-610

  • Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology ( BARNARD AND SPENCER 2002) p.

    • Words (1 items)

    婦  fù OC: buʔ MC: bɨu 7 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • n"young wife in the house", regularly used to refer to the daughter in law
    • n(post-N)N's daughter-in-lawDS
    • npost-Vdaughter-in-law characterised by VDS