| | 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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| | elder brother | HSK 1 |
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| | younger brother / junior male / I (modest word in letter) | HSK 1 |
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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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| | (coll.) father's older brother / uncle / term of respect for older man | 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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| | 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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| | father's younger brother / uncle / Taiwan pr. [shu2 shu5] / CL: 個|个 | 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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| | mother's brother / maternal uncle (informal) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | father's elder brother / term of respect for older man / 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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| | eldest of father's younger brothers / uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father) | |
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| | second month of a season / middle / intermediate / second amongst brothers | |
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| | first month of a season / eldest amongst brothers | |
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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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| | to become sworn brothers or sisters / sworn (brothers) | |
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| | descendant / elder brother / a style of Chinese poetry | |
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| | brother-in-law (younger sister's husband) | |
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| | (coll.) wife's younger brother | |
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| | older brother's wife / sister-in-law / (polite address to a younger married woman) sister | |
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| | husbands of sisters / brothers-in-law / extremely close (of a relationship) | |
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| | (bound form) older brother's wife; sister-in-law | |
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| | elder brother | |
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| | little brother / little boy / (coll.) penis | |
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| | little brother / I, your little brother (humble) | |
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| | wife of father's younger brother | |
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| | brothers / boys | |
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| | (coll.) wife's older brother | |
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| | uncle / father's younger brother / husband's younger brother / Taiwan pr. [shu2] | |
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| | descendant / elder brother | |
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| | wife of a younger brother | |
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| | younger sibling / younger brother's wife | |
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| | older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) | |
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| | brothers / comrades / men / brethren | |
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| | brother's daughter; niece | |
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| | second brother | |
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| | husband's younger brother / brother-in-law | |
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| | elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age | |
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| | hands and feet / (fig.) brothers / retinue, henchmen, accomplices | |
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| | wife of father's younger brother / aunt | |
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| | (coll.) father's younger brother's wife / aunt | |
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| | brother's son; nephew | |
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| | (familiar) elder 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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| | big brother | |
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| | (coll.) father's older brother's wife / aunt (polite address) | |
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| | brothers / comrade | |
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| | father's brother's sons / paternal male cousin | |
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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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| | Emperor Yang of Sui (569-618), said to have murdered his father and brother to seize the throne, reigned 604-618 | |
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| | to become sworn brothers | |
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| | wife's younger brother | |
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| | twin brothers | |
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| | Kong Rong giving up pears, classic moral story about Kong Rong 孔融 picking up smaller pears while leaving the bigger ones to his older brothers, still used nowadays to educate the young on courtesy and modesty | |
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| | worthy little brother | |
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| | honorific term for another person's brother | |
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| | sworn brothers | |
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| | younger brother | |
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| | wife of father's younger brother / aunt | |
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| | younger brother's wife / sister-in-law | |
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| | elder brother | |
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| | uncle (father's youngest brother) | |
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| | Bo Yikao, eldest son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王 and the elder brother of King Wu 周武王 who was the founder of the Zhou Dynasty 周朝 of ancient China | |
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| | father and elder brother(s) / head of the family / patriarch | |
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| | four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety 孝 to one's parents, respect 悌 to one's older brother, loyalty 忠 to one's monarch, faith 信 to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality 德, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
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| | Your esteemed older brother (honorific) | |
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| | father's younger brother / (sometimes used to refer to Confucius) | |
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| | husband's older brother / brother-in-law | |
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| | youngest brother / a period of two or three months | |
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| | (polite) my uncle (father's younger brother) | |
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| | wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother | |
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| | sworn brother | |
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| | (polite) my younger brother | |
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| | (archaic) brother | |
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| | wife of father's elder brother (old) | |
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| | all men are brothers | |
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| | elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy | |
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| | as close as brothers (idiom); deep friendship | |
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| | lit. older brother / fig. fellow students who are successful in the imperial examinations | |
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| | to do one's duty as a younger brother | |
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| | older sister's husband / brother-in-law | |
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| | younger brother's wife; sister-in-law | |
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| | great uncle / grandfather's younger brother / husband's father's younger brother | |
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| | Mikoyan (name) / Anastas Ivanonovich Mikoyan (1895-1978), Soviet politician, politburo member in the 1950s and 1960s / Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (1905-1970), brother of the politician and one designer of MiG military aircraft | |
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| | wife of mother's brother | |
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| | aunt / wife of father's younger brother | |
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| | father's brother's daughters / paternal female cousin | |
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| | father's brother (uncle) / husband's brother (brother-in-law) | |
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| | eldest brother | |
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| | wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old) | |
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| | father's younger brother / uncle | |
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| | mother's brother / maternal uncle | |
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| | with different father (e.g. of half-brother) | |
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| | (polite) my elder brother | |
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