乾娘

adoptive mother (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)

Characters and words in 乾娘

old variant of 乾[qian2]
surname Qian
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing heaven / male principle / ☰ / ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)
surname Gan

= + : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
dry / clean / in vain / dried food / foster / adoptive / to ignore

= + : Guy Fawkes is drying his clothes in front of the anthill. He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross and a flute. Waiting for his clothes to dry, he heats some dried fruits.
variant of 乾[qian2]
dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder
mother / young lady / (coll.) effeminate

= + : Bessie Coleman (女) and Nefertiti (ni) got a child and are now young mothers (娘). One day, their child approaches them just inside the anglepod's kitchen (ang2) and gives them a thank you card (良). The child wants to say thank you because its mothers have been so good.
variant of 娘[niang2]

= + : Bessie Coleman (女) and Nefertiti (ni) got a child and are now young mothers (娘). One day, their child approaches them just inside the anglepod's kitchen (ang2) and gives them a thank you card (良). The child wants to say thank you because its mothers have been so good.

Words with 乾娘

乾娘 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 乾娘

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