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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
older brother / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
(coll.) father's older brother / uncle / term of respect for older man
HSK 4
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嫂* | 嫂* | *嫂
(bound form) older brother's wife; sister-in-law
older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman)
six close relatives, namely: father , mother , older brothers , younger brothers , wife , male children / one's kin
older brother's wife / sister-in-law / (polite address to a younger married woman) sister
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
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)
husband's older brother / father's older brother (esp. his oldest brother)
wife of father's elder brother (old)
elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy
lit. older brother / fig. fellow students who are successful in the imperial examinations
(coll.) father's older brother's wife / aunt (polite address)
wife's older brother
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姒* | 姒* | *姒
wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old)
(coll.) wife's older brother
(old) brother's son or daughter / nephew
older sister's husband / brother-in-law
(female usage) older brother (loanword from Korean "oppa") / male friend
Confucian moral injunctions of fidelity / piety to one's parents, respect to one's older brother, loyalty to one's monarch, faith to one's male friends
(old) genealogical records of sworn brothers, each keeping a copy


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