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brothers / younger brother / CL: 個|个 / I, me (humble term used by men in public speech) / brotherly / fraternal
HSK 4
brother(s) and sister(s)
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  *兄* | 兄* | *兄
elder brother
senior male fellow student or apprentice / son (older than oneself) of one's teacher
elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age
brothers / comrade
father and elder brother(s) / head of the family / patriarch
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
elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy
eldest brother
older male patrilineal cousin
internecine strife (idiom); fighting among oneself
(polite) my elder brother
brother (polite appellation for a friend one's age)
(honorific written address) My dear friend
older male cousin via female line
elder brother and his wife
wife's older brother
(coll., humorous) money (so named because in former times, Chinese coins had a square hole in the middle)
older stepbrother
senior fellow student
brothers and sisters / siblings
Your esteemed older brother (honorific)
male cousins via female line
elder brother
sworn brothers
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基
twin brothers
all men are brothers
Warner Brothers
lit. older brother / fig. fellow students who are successful in the imperial examinations
sworn brother
Lehman Brothers, investment bank
fellow apprentices; fellow students (male)
senior partner in sworn brotherhood
internal disunity dissolves at the threat of an invasion from outside (idiom)
father's brother's sons / paternal male cousin
brothers / comrades / men / brethren
husband of wife's older sister
fraternity
sibling
older male second cousin
step-siblings
even with your own brother, keep clear accounts (idiom)
twin brothers


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