| | 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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| | father's younger brother; paternal uncle / form of address used by children for a male one generation older | 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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| | father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman) | HSK 4 |
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| | younger brother / junior male / I (modest word in letter) | HSK 1 |
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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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| | season / the last month of a season / fourth or youngest amongst brothers / classifier for seasonal crop yields | HSK 4 |
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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.) father's older brother / uncle / term of respect for older man | HSK 4 |
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| | Brothers! / brethren / dude (colloquial) / brother (diminutive form of address between males) | |
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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 / term of respect for older man / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | brothers and sisters / siblings | |
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| | brother(s) and sister(s) | |
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| | twin brothers | |
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| | Kang Guangren (1867-1898), younger brother of Kang Youwei 康有為｜康有为 and one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 | |
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| | father's brother (uncle) / husband's brother (brother-in-law) | |
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| | hands and feet / (fig.) brothers / retinue, henchmen, accomplices | |
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| | Lehman Brothers, investment bank | |
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| | brothers / comrades / men / brethren | |
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| | as close as brothers (idiom); deep friendship | |
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| | younger sibling / younger brother's wife | |
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| | younger brother | |
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| | brotherly kindness | |
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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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| | lit. unable to distinguish eldest brother from second brother (idiom); they are all equally excellent / nothing to choose between them | |
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| | (coll.) older brother's wife; sister-in-law | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Warner Brothers | |
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| | brother's son; nephew | |
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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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| | uncle / father's younger brother / husband's younger brother / Taiwan pr. [shu2] | |
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| | even with your own brother, keep clear accounts (idiom) | |
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| | little brother / I, your little brother (humble) | |
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| | elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age | |
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| | wife's younger brother | |
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| | (literary) brothers / elder and younger brother | |
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| | wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife | |
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| | (of siblings) having the same mother but different fathers / half (brother or sister) | |
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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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| | (coll.) father's older brother's wife / aunt (polite address) | |
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| | twin brothers | |
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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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| | older sister's husband / brother-in-law | |
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| | first month of a season / eldest amongst brothers | |
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| | Zhang Fei (168-221), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, famous as fearsome fighter and lover of wine | |
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| | the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend) | |
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| | wives of brothers; sisters-in-law | |
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| | Guan Yu (-219), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, fearsome fighter famous for virtue and loyalty / posthumously worshipped and identified with the guardian Bodhisattva Sangharama | |
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| | with different father (e.g. of half-brother) | |
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| | brother's son's wife; nephew's wife | |
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| | father and elder brother(s) / head of the family / patriarch | |
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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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| | wife of father's younger brother | |
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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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| | wife's older brother | |
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| | (coll.) wife's older brother | |
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| | to regard sb as a brother (idiom) | |
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| | brother's daughter; niece | |
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| | husband's older brother / father's older brother (esp. his oldest brother) | |
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| | aunt / wife of father's younger brother | |
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| | older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) | |
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| | (polite) my elder brother | |
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| | older brother's wife / sister-in-law / (polite address to a younger married woman) sister | |
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| | big brother | |
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| | father's younger brother / uncle | |
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| | (coll.) wife's younger brother | |
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| | Wang Dun (266-324), powerful general of Jin dynasty and brother of civil official Wang Dao 王導｜王导, subsequently rebellious warlord 322-324 | |
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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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| | uncle (father's youngest brother) | |
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| | (of siblings) having the same father but different mothers / half (brother or sister) | |
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| | grandfather's younger brother | |
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| | mother's brother / maternal uncle (informal) / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | soul brothers / friends in spirit who have never met / to commune with | |
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| | husbands of sisters / brothers-in-law / extremely close (of a relationship) | |
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| | wife of father's elder brother (old) | |
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| | honorable little brother | |
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| | Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), brother of Lu Xun 魯迅｜鲁迅, academic in Japanese and Greek studies, briefly imprisoned after the war as Japanese collaborator, persecuted and died of unknown causes during the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | brothers / boys | |
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| | La Salle (used in the names of schools etc) / Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651-1719), French priest, founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools | |
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| | father's brother's sons / paternal male cousin | |
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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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| | younger brother | |
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| | father's father's brother's wife / great aunt | |
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| | elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy | |
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| | brother's son; nephew | |
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| | (female usage) older brother (loanword from Korean "oppa") / male friend | |
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| | aunt by marriage / husband's aunt / husband's father's younger brother's wife | |
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| | to do one's duty as a younger brother | |
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| | father's father's brother / great uncle | |
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| | elder brother and his wife | |
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| | wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother | |
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| | great uncle / grandfather's younger brother / husband's father's younger brother | |
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| | emperor's young brother | |
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| | brother's daughter's husband / niece's husband | |
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