| 老婆孩子热炕头 |
lǎo pó hái zi rè kàng tou |
wife, kids and a warm bed (idiom) / the simple and good life |
| 老 |
lǎo |
prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough |
| 老婆 |
lǎo pó |
(coll.) wife |
| 婆 |
pó |
(bound form) grandmother / (bound form) matron / (bound form) mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship) |
| 孩 |
hái |
(bound form) child |
| 孩子 |
hái zi |
child |
| 子 |
zǐ |
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub- |
| 子 |
zi |
noun suffix, as in 椅子 "chair" |
| 热 |
rè |
to warm up / to heat up / hot (of weather) / heat / fervent |
| 炕 |
kàng |
old variant of 炕 |
| 炕 |
kàng |
kang (a heatable brick bed) / to bake / to dry by the heat of a fire |
| 头 |
tóu |
head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL:个 |
| 头 |
tou |
suffix for nouns |