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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *哥* | 哥* | *哥
elder brother
HSK 1
father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman)
HSK 4
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
father's elder brother / term of respect for older man / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
elder brother born to the same parents
father's elder brother / uncle
HSK 7-9
lit. hard to differentiate between elder and younger brother (idiom) / fig. one is just as bad as the other
elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age
(literary) brothers / elder and younger brother
Bo Yikao, eldest son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王 and elder brother of King Wu of Zhou 周武王
father and elder brother(s) / head of the family / patriarch
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *伯* | 伯* | *伯
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
older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman)
(polite) my elder brother
wife of father's elder brother (old)
elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy
elder brother and his wife
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *昆* | 昆* | *昆
descendant / elder brother / a style of Chinese poetry
(familiar) elder brother
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *兄* | 兄* | *兄
elder brother
elder brother
(coll.) husband's elder brother
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *姒* | 姒* | *姒
wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *晜* | 晜* | *晜
descendant / elder brother


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