"Mother-in-law" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 婆 |  pó | grandmother / matron / mother-in-law / (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship) |   |
| 婆婆 | pó po | husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma | |
| 阿婆 | ā pó | granny / mother-in-law | |
| 丈母 | zhàng mǔ | wife's mother / mother-in-law | |
| 泰水 | tài shuǐ | (literary) mother-in-law / wife's mother | |
| 家婆 | jiā pó | (dialect) mother-in-law / (house)wife | |
| 丈母娘 | zhàng mǔ niáng | wife's mother / mother-in-law / same as 丈母 | |
| 岳母 | yuè mǔ | wife's mother, mother-in-law | |
| 婆媳 | pó xí | mother-in-law and daughter-in-law | |
| 虎尾兰 | hǔ wěi lán | snake plant aka mother-in-law's tongue (Dracaena trifasciata) | |
| 媳妇熬成婆 | xí fù áo chéng pó | lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom) / fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor / what goes around comes around | |
