| | 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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| | 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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| | (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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| | 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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| | daughter-in-law / wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation | 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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| | 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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| | brother-in-law (younger sister's husband) | |
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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 / I, your little brother (humble) | |
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| | descendant / elder brother / a style of Chinese poetry | |
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| | wife of father's younger brother | |
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| | hands and feet / (fig.) brothers / retinue, henchmen, accomplices | |
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| | uncle / father's younger brother / husband's younger brother / Taiwan pr. [shu2] | |
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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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| | 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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| | 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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| | (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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| | wife of father's younger brother / aunt | |
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| | brothers / boys | |
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| | big brother | |
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| | brothers / comrade | |
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| | little brother / little boy / (coll.) penis | |
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| | lit. directory of orchids / fig. genealogical record (esp. exchanged between sworn brothers) | |
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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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| | older brother's wife / sister-in-law / (polite address to a younger married woman) sister | |
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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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| | husbands of sisters / brothers-in-law / extremely close (of a relationship) | |
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| | wife of father's younger brother / aunt | |
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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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| | brother's daughter; niece | |
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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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| | elder brother and his wife | |
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| | younger brother | |
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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 / father's older brother (esp. his oldest brother) | |
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| | younger brother's wife / sister-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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| | (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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| | sworn brother | |
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| | father's younger brother / uncle | |
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| | mother's brother / maternal uncle | |
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| | (coll.) wife's younger brother | |
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| | with different father (e.g. of half-brother) | |
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| | (polite) my elder brother | |
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| | brother(s) and sister(s) | |
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| | aunt by marriage / husband's aunt / husband's father's younger brother's wife | |
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