Comments on: Chinese Family Tree

By: Alchiang

Alchiang — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:08:30 +0000

Hi Albert
pinyin will be added soon

By: Albert

Albert — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:46:39 +0000

alchiang,

Wow! That’s an overwhelmingly awesome family tree. I only wish it had pinyin.

By: alchiang

alchiang — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:04:01 +0000

For more details of The Chinese Family Tree,
Please visit my more detailed version of the Chinese Paternal & Maternal Family tree.
Link http://malaysian-cuisine.com/touristinfo/family_tree.htm

By: alchiang

alchiang — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:16:45 +0000

Hi madarin,
I’m from Malaysia and I’m a local Chinese.

姨丈 is your mother’s-sister’s husband,
姑丈 is your father’s-sister’s husband,
姑爺 ,if I’m not mistaken is usually address by servants/maids to their master’s daughter’s husband and
嫂子 refers to your elder brother’s wife,
and lastly 家嫂 is refered by elders to their family’s daughter-in-law.(Cantonese). Hope I’m right.

By: I am looking for my airen...

I am looking for my airen... — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:56:06 +0000

if you are got married then you can call your company is your “airen”, but if before wedding you couldn’t call “airen” , you should call your lover or boyfriend/girlfriend, as if a men said to you” this is my airen…” this means he loves and respects his wife very well.

By: Sharon ZY

Sharon ZY — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:04:12 +0000

爱人 refers to spouse, so the husband can introduce his wife to his friends saying that This is my airen; and the wife can also introduce her husband saying the same thing.

By: madarin

madarin — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:46:08 +0000

The “Chinese Family Tree” illustration is great .. but is it missing any terms?? What about .. 姨丈,姑丈,姑爺,嫂子,家嫂, etc., I dont know how they are related and I cant find them on the family tree. It would be great if you could at some illustration with them.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:35:48 +0000

We hear ai4 ren2 (爱人) in Tianjin often. We often use Lao3 Po2 (老婆wife) and Lao3 Gong1 (老公husband). If I address Jessica as 老婆 with the right tone of voice in front of our Chinese friends it always gets a rise out of them. Our teachers have said that young marrieds sometimes use these to be cute or affectionate. I’m still not totally clear on all the various connotations.

I was planning to make a family tree, but you did all my work for me! Maybe I’ll take yours and expand it?

I wonder if any of these terms will fall out of use when the single child generation takes over.

By: Kexin

Kexin — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:47:19 +0000

Where I am in northern China, people do use airen, but more common is duixiang (not common at all with southerners)

By: sara

sara — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:07:05 +0000

airen is used by mainland chinese people. in taiwan, people tend to use tai tai, xiansheng…