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  *大* | 大* | *大
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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  *哥* | 哥* | *哥
elder brother
HSK 1
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  *弟* | 弟* | *弟
younger brother / junior male / I (modest word in letter)
HSK 1
older brother / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
younger brother / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
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  *季* | 季* | *季
season / the last month of a season / fourth or youngest amongst brothers / classifier for seasonal crop yields
HSK 4
(coll.) father's older brother / uncle / term of respect for older man
HSK 4
brothers / younger brother / CL: 個|个 / I, me (humble term used by men in public speech) / brotherly / fraternal
HSK 4
eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader; boss
HSK 4
father's younger brother / uncle / Taiwan pr. [shu2 shu5] / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman)
HSK 4
mother's brother / maternal uncle (informal) / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
father's elder brother / term of respect for older man / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
(coll.) older brother's wife; sister-in-law
HSK 7-9
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
father's elder brother / uncle
HSK 7-9
eldest of father's younger brothers / uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father)
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  *仲* | 仲* | *仲
second month of a season / middle / intermediate / second amongst brothers
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  *孟* | 孟* | *孟
first month of a season / eldest amongst brothers
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  *伯* | 伯* | *伯
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
to become sworn brothers or sisters / sworn (brothers)
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  *昆* | 昆* | *昆
descendant / elder brother / a style of Chinese poetry
brother-in-law (younger sister's husband)
(coll.) wife's younger brother
older brother's wife / sister-in-law / (polite address to a younger married woman) sister
husbands of sisters / brothers-in-law / extremely close (of a relationship)
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  *嫂* | 嫂* | *嫂
(bound form) older brother's wife; sister-in-law
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  *兄* | 兄* | *兄
elder brother
little brother / little boy / (coll.) penis
little brother / I, your little brother (humble)
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  *嬸* | 嬸* | *嬸
wife of father's younger brother
brothers / boys
(coll.) wife's older brother
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  *叔* | 叔* | *叔
uncle / father's younger brother / husband's younger brother / Taiwan pr. [shu2]
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  *晜* | 晜* | *晜
descendant / elder brother
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  *娣* | 娣* | *娣
wife of a younger brother
younger sibling / younger brother's wife
older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman)
brothers / comrades / men / brethren
brother's daughter; niece
second brother
husband's younger brother / brother-in-law
elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age
hands and feet / (fig.) brothers / retinue, henchmen, accomplices
wife of father's younger brother / aunt
(coll.) father's younger brother's wife / aunt
brother's son; nephew
(familiar) elder brother
six close relatives, namely: father , mother , older brothers , younger brothers , wife , male children / one's kin
big brother
(coll.) father's older brother's wife / aunt (polite address)
brothers / comrade
father's brother's sons / paternal male cousin
lit. hard to differentiate between elder and younger brother (idiom) / fig. one is just as bad as the other
brothers in hardship (idiom) / fellow sufferers / in the same boat
Emperor Yang of Sui (569-618), said to have murdered his father and brother to seize the throne, reigned 604-618
to become sworn brothers
wife's younger brother
twin brothers
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
worthy little brother
honorific term for another person's brother
sworn brothers
younger brother
wife of father's younger brother / aunt
younger brother's wife / sister-in-law
elder brother
uncle (father's youngest brother)
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
father and elder brother(s) / head of the family / patriarch
four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 (for men), namely: piety to one's parents, respect to one's older brother, loyalty to one's monarch, faith to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality , physical charm , propriety in speech and efficiency in needlework
Your esteemed older brother (honorific)
father's younger brother / (sometimes used to refer to Confucius)
husband's older brother / brother-in-law
youngest brother / a period of two or three months
(polite) my uncle (father's younger brother)
wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother
sworn brother
(polite) my younger brother
(archaic) brother
wife of father's elder brother (old)
all men are brothers
elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy
as close as brothers (idiom); deep friendship
lit. older brother / fig. fellow students who are successful in the imperial examinations
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  *悌* | 悌* | *悌
to do one's duty as a younger brother
older sister's husband / brother-in-law
younger brother's wife; sister-in-law
great uncle / grandfather's younger brother / husband's father's younger brother
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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  *妗* | 妗* | *妗
wife of mother's brother
aunt / wife of father's younger brother
father's brother's daughters / paternal female cousin
father's brother (uncle) / husband's brother (brother-in-law)
eldest brother
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  *姒* | 姒* | *姒
wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old)
father's younger brother / uncle
mother's brother / maternal uncle
with different father (e.g. of half-brother)
(polite) my elder brother

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