可能在法律上 我们不在一个户口本上
“Perhaps, legally, our names don't appear in the same household register,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
形式并不重要
“The form is not important.”
可能在法律上 我们 不在一个户口本上
“Perhaps, legally, our names don't appear in the same household register,”
“but in our heart, there is always a household register”
“Paperwork may say we aren't family, but that doesn't change what we are to each other.”
In China, the 'Hukouben' (household register) is the definitive legal symbol of a nuclear family; not sharing one often highlights adoption, remarriage, or chosen family.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
household registration booklet
A vital Chinese civic document listing family members; often used metaphorically to mean being officially recognized as family.
in the eyes of the law; legally speaking
Useful conversational frame to distinguish formal/legal status from personal reality.
