wife

husband and wife; married couple

ex-wife; late wife

fiancée

(bound form) wife

to marry off (a daughter)

wife and child

lovely wife

(old) perfect wife; you, my beloved wife

to be bereaved of one's wife

one's late wife

married woman; wife (as a social role)

to repudiate one's wife

first wife

(neologism, attested by 2009) wife of a gay man (the man may marry to conform with social expectations, and the woman often enters the marriage not knowing he is gay)

wives and concubines (of a polygamous man); harem

wife

wife and children; (old) wife

to take a wife; to get married (man)

concubine

wife swapping

primary wife (in contrast to concubine); legal wife

widow

to use one's power and influence to take another man's wife for oneself

monogyny

polygyny

family-run shop

similarity in features of an old couple; common facial traits that show predestination to be married together

see 夫妻相[fu1 qi1 xiang4]

henpecked male

wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband

monogamy

polygyny

(idiom) to have many wives and concubines; to have a harem

weekend spouse; relationship involving a sugar-daddy

man and wife fall out (idiom, from Book of Changes); marital strife

popular Sichuan cold dish made of thinly sliced beef and beef offal

to have many wives and concubines; to have a harem

a family wrenched apart (idiom)

favor the concubine and do away with the wife (idiom); spoil one's mistress and neglect one's wife

(idiom) to bestow a title on the wife of a deserving official and make his son heir to his titles

to abandon one's wife and child(ren)

older husband and much younger wife

long-married couple

a good wife and loving mother

a couple in a short-lived, improper relationship

you should not covet your friend's wife (idiom)

an ugly wife is a treasure at home (idiom)

husband and wife in youth, companions in old age