| | elder brother | HSK 1 |
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| | chief / head / elder / to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance | HSK 2 |
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| | father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman) | HSK 4 |
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| | big sister / elder sister / older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker) | HSK 4 |
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| | one's elders / older generation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | senior figure / elder / doyen | 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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| | to show filial respect / to give presents (to one's elders or superiors) / to support one's aged parents | 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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| | (bound form) to scrutinize / (bound form) to reflect (on one's conduct) / (bound form) to come to realize / (bound form) to pay a visit (to one's parents or elders) | |
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| | elder brother | |
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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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| | (literary) youngster / (old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation) / (old) I, me (used in speaking to one's elders) | |
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| | clan elder | |
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| | elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age | |
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| | descendant / elder brother / a style of Chinese poetry | |
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| | to contradict (elders or superiors) | |
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| | wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old) | |
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| | elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy | |
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| | older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) | |
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| | to supply / to provide for one's elders / to support one's parents | |
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| | one's superior / one's elders and betters | |
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| | elder / term of respect for a Buddhist monk | |
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| | (familiar) elder brother | |
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| | elders | |
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| | descendant / elder brother | |
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| | Bletilla hyacinthina (mucilaginous) / Acronym for the Chinese Elder tree 菫草 | |
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| | to avoid a taboo (usu. on the given names of emperors or one's elders) | |
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| | father and elder brother(s) / head of the family / patriarch | |
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| | elder brother | |
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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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| | I (self-deprecatory, in front of elders) (old) | |
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| | (literary) brothers / elder and younger brother | |
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| | (dialect) elder sister (old) | |
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| | (polite) my elder brother | |
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| | elder brother and his wife | |
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| | (coll.) husband's elder brother | |
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| | (formal, tactful) (of an elder) to pass away | |
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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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| | elder or elderberry (genus Sambucus) | |
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| | Yesou Puyan or Humble Words of a Rustic Elder, monumental Qing novel by Xia Jingqu 夏敬渠 | |
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| | wife of father's elder brother (old) | |
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| | ancestors / one's elders | |
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| | (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril | |
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| | to disrespect one's superiors / to offend one's elders | |
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| | Xia Jingqu (1705-1787), Qing novelist, author of monumental novel 野叟曝言 Humble Words of a Rustic Elder | |
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| | wife's elder sister / sister-in-law | |
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| | ground-elder (Aegopodium podagraria) | |
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| | More moral strength increases one's safety, more power and influence increases one's danger (idiom, from Records of the Historian 史記｜史记). cf Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it (William Pitt the Elder, 1770). | |
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