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父fù母mǔ之zhī命mìng,,媒méi妁shuò之zhī言yán
  1. (idiom) parents' orders and matchmaker's services (in establishing an arranged marriage)

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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父
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(bound form) father, (bound form) male relative of father's generation (as in 伯父[bo2 fu4]), (computing) (bound form) parent-

Pinyin
fù
Strokes
4
Frequency
11239 of 2500
Words starting with 父Words ending in 父Anywhere in a word
母
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

mother, elderly female relative, origin, source, (of animals) female

Pinyin
mǔ
Strokes
5
Frequency
10584 of 2500
Words starting with 母Words ending in 母Anywhere in a word
之
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]), him, her, it

Pinyin
zhī
Strokes
3
Frequency
475 of 2500
Words starting with 之Words ending in 之Anywhere in a word
命
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

life, fate, order or command, to assign a name, title etc

Pinyin
mìng
Strokes
8
Frequency
1561 of 2500
Words starting with 命Words ending in 命Anywhere in a word
媒
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

medium, intermediary, matchmaker, go-between, abbr. for 媒體|媒体[mei2 ti3], media, esp. news media

Pinyin
méi
Strokes
12
Words starting with 媒Words ending in 媒Anywhere in a word
妁
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

surname Shuo

Pinyin
Shuò
Strokes
6
Words starting with 妁Words ending in 妁Anywhere in a word
言
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

words, speech, to say, to talk

Pinyin
yán
Strokes
7
Frequency
6821 of 2500
Words starting with 言Words ending in 言Anywhere in a word