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


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