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Cohabiting stepfather (同居的繼父 ; Tóngjū de jìfù) Non-cohabiting stepfather (不同居的繼父 ; Bù tóngjū de jìfù) Stepfather from remarriage of father and mother (從父母嫁之繼父 ; Cóng fùmǔ jià zhī jìfù) 嫡母 (Dímǔ) - father's official wife (when birth mother of ego is a concubine) 繼母 (Jìmǔ) - stepmother 養母 (Yǎngmǔ) - adopted mother 慈母 (Címǔ) - concubine replacing ego's birth mother who died 嫁母 (Jiàmǔ) - widowed birth mother who has remarried 出母 (Chūmǔ) - birth mother who has been divorced 庶母 (Shùmǔ) - father's concubine who is also a mother (when birth mother of ego is the official wife) 乳母 (Rǔmǔ) - wet nurse Another saying of "five fathers and ten mothers" (五父十母 ; Wǔ fù shí mǔ) refers to

生父 (Shēngfù) - birth father 養父 (Yǎngfù) - adopted father 繼父 (Jìfù) - stepfather 義父 (Yìfù) - godfather 師父 (Shīfù) - (male) teacher/coach/master and two mothers added to the eight mentioned above:

生母 (Shēngmǔ) - birth mother 諸母 (Zhūmǔ) - father's concubine As a result of polygamy there would be half-siblings:

同父異母兄弟姐妹 (Tóng fù yìmǔ xiōngdì jiěmèi) - siblings sharing the same father 同母異父兄弟姐妹 (Tóng mǔ yìfù xiōngdì jiěmèi) - siblings sharing the same mother

== See also == Chinese marriage Chinese surname Chinese compound surname Chinese given name Little Emperor Syndrome General:

Family Consanguinity Patrilineality

== Notes ==

== References and further reading == Jankowiak, William; Sun, Yuezhu (8 June 2017). "Family Relationships in Contemporary China". Oxford Bibliographies. Morgan, Lewis Henry. 1877. Ancient Society. MacMillan & Company, London (complete text online) Watson, James L (1982). "Chinese Kinship Reconsidered: Anthropological Perspectives on Historical Research". The China Quarterly. 92: 589622. doi:10.1017/S0305741000000965. Wolf, Arthur P. and Chieh-shan Huang. 1985. Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845-1945. Stanford University Press. (in Chinese) Code of (Mourning) Attire tables http://extremeorient.revues.org/234 The Father-Son Relationship in Early Medieval China