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Word and Radical Components of 岳父

The Chinese word 岳父 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
岳父 yuèfù 1. n. father-in-law (wife's father)

岳父 ⇨ 岳 + 父
Component Pinyin Meanings
yuè 1. (zh-alt-lb, *嶽) tall mountain
2. (historical) name of a mountain ((generally interpreted as Mount Song (Eno, 2009)))
3. parent-in-law
      - Yue Fei
4. Simplified form of 嶽
5. Variant of ?
1. father
     父親 (fùqīn) - (q, 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) - (q, humble) my father
     生父 (shēngfù) - biological father
     養父 (yǎngfù) - adoptive father
     繼父 (jìfù) - stepfather
     天父 - q
     國父 (guófù) - father of a nation; (q, specifically) Father of the Republic (Sun Yat-sen)
     雜交 水稻 (zájiāo shuǐdào zhī fù) - (q, specifically) Father of Hybrid Rice (Yuan Longping)
     (ant, zh, )
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)
     (ant, zh, )
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)
     梁父梁甫山) (Liángfǔshān (Liángfǔshān)) - Mount Liangfu (alternately, Mount Liangfu) (in Shandong, China)

岳 ⇨ 丘 + 山
Component Pinyin Meanings
qiū 1. mound; hill
     山丘 - hill
     沙丘 - dune
2. grave
3. to place a coffin in a temporary shelter pending burial
4. (dialectal)
5. (obsolete) ruins
6. (obsolete) empty
      - Shing-Tung Yau
7. usage. See 邱.
8. Variant of 兵
9. Variant of 蚯
shān 1. mountain; hill
     登山 - to climb a mountain
2. hill-shaped object
     冰山 - iceberg
3. bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons
4. gable
5. (Cantonese, Liuzhou Mandarin, Pinghua) tomb; grave
6. . Shan