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| | big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) | HSK 1 |
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| | younger brother / junior male / I (modest word in letter) | HSK 1 |
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| | eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader; boss | HSK 4 |
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| | brothers / younger brother / CL: 個|个 / I, me (humble term used by men in public speech) / brotherly / fraternal | HSK 4 |
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| | season / the last month of a season / fourth or youngest amongst brothers / classifier for seasonal crop yields | HSK 4 |
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| | father's younger brother / uncle / Taiwan pr. [shu2 shu5] / CL: 個|个 | HSK 4 |
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| | (coll.) father's older brother / uncle / term of respect for older man | HSK 4 |
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| | father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman) | HSK 4 |
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| | father's elder brother / term of respect for older man / CL: 個|个 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | mother's brother / maternal uncle (informal) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (coll.) older brother's wife; sister-in-law | HSK 7-9 |
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| | wife of father's elder brother / aunt / (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | father's elder brother / uncle | HSK 7-9 |
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| | father's elder brother / senior / paternal elder uncle / eldest of brothers / respectful form of address / Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 | |
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| | first month of a season / eldest amongst brothers | |
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| | eldest of father's younger brothers / uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father) | |
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| | brother(s) and sister(s) | |
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| | uncle / father's younger brother / husband's younger brother / Taiwan pr. [shu2] | |
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| | descendant / elder brother / a style of Chinese poetry | |
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| | older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) | |
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| | second month of a season / middle / intermediate / second amongst brothers | |
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| | younger sibling / younger brother's wife | |
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| | wives of brothers; sisters-in-law | |
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| | (bound form) older brother's wife; sister-in-law | |
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| | hands and feet / (fig.) brothers / retinue, henchmen, accomplices | |
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| | Brothers! / brethren / dude (colloquial) / brother (diminutive form of address between males) | |
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| | little brother / I, your little brother (humble) | |
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| | (coll.) wife's older brother | |
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| | brother's son; nephew | |
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| | elder brother | |
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| | (coll.) wife's younger brother | |
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| | (coll.) father's younger brother's wife / aunt | |
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| | my younger brother (humble term) | |
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| | to become sworn brothers or sisters / sworn (brothers) | |
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| | (familiar) elder brother | |
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| | (of siblings) having the same father but different mothers / half (brother or sister) | |
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| | elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age | |
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| | wife of a younger brother | |
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| | brother-in-law / husband's younger brother | |
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| | to do one's duty as a younger brother | |
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| | wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old) | |
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| | husband's older brother / brother-in-law | |
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| | brothers / boys | |
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| | husband's younger brother / brother-in-law | |
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| | brothers / comrade | |
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| | wife of father's younger brother | |
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| | six close relatives, namely: father 父, mother 母, older brothers 兄, younger brothers 弟, wife 妻, male children 子 / one's kin | |
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| | younger brother's wife; sister-in-law | |
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| | second brother | |
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| | wife of father's younger brother / aunt | |
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| | great uncle / grandfather's younger brother / husband's father's younger brother | |
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| | mother's brother / maternal uncle | |
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| | father's younger brother / uncle | |
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| | father and elder brother(s) / head of the family / patriarch | |
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| | half-sibling relationship / brothers with different mother / step- | |
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| | Guan Yu (-219), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, fearsome fighter famous for virtue and loyalty / posthumously worshipped and identified with the guardian Bodhisattva Sangharama | |
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| | wife of mother's brother | |
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| | brother's daughter; niece | |
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| | lit. hard to differentiate between elder and younger brother (idiom) / fig. one is just as bad as the other | |
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| | brothers in hardship (idiom) / fellow sufferers / in the same boat | |
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| | elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy | |
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| | eldest brother | |
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| | (coll.) father's older brother's wife / aunt (polite address) | |
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| | brother's son; nephew | |
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| | (literary) brothers / elder and younger brother | |
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| | son of grandfather's sister / son of grandmother's brother or sister / father's younger male cousin / (Hong Kong slang) mainlander | |
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| | wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife | |
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| | as close as one's hands and feet (idiom); loving one another as brothers / deep friendship / closely attached to one another | |
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| | (polite) my elder brother | |
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| | with different father (e.g. of half-brother) | |
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| | brother (polite appellation for a friend one's age) | |
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| | older brother's wife / sister-in-law / (polite address to a younger married woman) sister | |
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| | grandfather's younger brother | |
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| | lit. unable to distinguish eldest brother from second brother (idiom); they are all equally excellent / nothing to choose between them | |
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| | (of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers / half (brother or sister) | |
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| | worthy little brother | |
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| | brotherly affection | |
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| | wife's younger brother | |
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| | soul brothers / friends in spirit who have never met / to commune with | |
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| | elder brother and his wife | |
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| | husbands of sisters / brothers-in-law / extremely close (of a relationship) | |
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| | (informal) mother's brother's wife / maternal uncle's wife | |
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| | wife of father's younger brother / aunt | |
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| | wife's older brother | |
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| | lit. directory of orchids / fig. genealogical record (esp. exchanged between sworn brothers) | |
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| | as close as brothers (idiom); deep friendship | |
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| | aunt by marriage / husband's aunt / husband's father's younger brother's wife | |
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| | honorable little brother | |
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| | descendant / elder brother | |
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| | (coll.) husband's elder brother | |
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| | aunt / wife of father's younger brother | |
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| | younger brother | |
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| | brother-in-law (younger sister's husband) | |
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| | younger brother's wife / sister-in-law | |
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| | eldest / second / third and youngest of brothers / order of seniority among brothers | |
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| | (polite) my uncle (father's younger brother) | |
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| | younger brother | |
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