| | 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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| | 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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| | father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman) | HSK 4 |
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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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| | (coll.) father's older brother / uncle / term of respect for older man | 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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| | father's elder brother / uncle | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (coll.) older brother's wife; sister-in-law | HSK 7-9 |
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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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| | kiln / oven / coal pit / cave dwelling / (coll.) brothel | 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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| | mother's brother / maternal uncle (informal) / CL: 個|个 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to employ; to appoint / (bound form) to betroth / (coll.) (of a woman) to get married; to be marrried off / (literary) to visit another state as an envoy on a diplomatic mission / Taiwan pr. [ping4] | 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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| | boiled noodles served without broth, topped with just a sprinkle of oil and some chopped spring onions, to which customers add vinegar, soy sauce or chili oil according to their taste | |
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| | husbands of sisters / brothers-in-law / extremely close (of a relationship) | |
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| | to rip one's robe as a sign of repudiating a sworn brotherhood (idiom) / to break all friendly ties | |
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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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| | (bound form) older brother's wife; sister-in-law | |
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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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| | even with your own brother, keep clear accounts (idiom) | |
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| | uncle / father's younger brother / husband's younger brother / Taiwan pr. [shu2] | |
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| | betrothal money (given to the bride's family) | |
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| | brother's son; nephew | |
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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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| | spirit of loyalty and self-sacrifice / code of brotherhood / also pr. [yi4 qi5] | |
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| | elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age | |
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| | more hands than needed (idiom); too many cooks spoil the broth | |
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| | father's brother's sons / paternal male cousin | |
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| | elder brother | |
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| | brother(s) and sister(s) | |
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| | wife of father's younger brother | |
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| | sworn brotherhood / intimate friendship | |
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| | oden, Japanese dish made with boiled eggs, processed fish cakes, daikon radish, tofu etc in a kelp-based broth | |
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| | father's brother (uncle) / husband's brother (brother-in-law) | |
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| | (coll.) father's older brother's wife / aunt (polite address) | |
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| | Confucian moral injunctions of fidelity / piety to one's parents, respect to one's older brother, loyalty to one's monarch, faith to one's male friends | |
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| | wife's older brother | |
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| | soup; broth | |
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| | to send the betrothal gifts / (fig.) to conclude a marriage | |
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| | father's younger brother / uncle | |
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| | brothers / comrades / men / brethren | |
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| | patron of a brothel | |
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| | second month of a season / middle / intermediate / second amongst brothers | |
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| | lit. to enjoy the beautiful spring scenery (idiom) / fig. to frequent brothels / to sow one's wild oats | |
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| | big brother | |
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| | (polite) my elder brother | |
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| | broth / clear soup / consommé | |
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| | (familiar) 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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| | (coll.) wife's older brother | |
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| | to settle a marriage / betrothal | |
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| | brotherly affection | |
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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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| | (coll.) wife's younger brother | |
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| | Xuanwu gate coup of June 626 in early Tang, in which Li Shimin 李世民 killed his brothers, seized the throne from his father as Emperor Taizong 唐太宗 | |
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| | father's brother's daughters / paternal female cousin | |
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| | hands and feet / (fig.) brothers / retinue, henchmen, accomplices | |
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| | soul brothers / friends in spirit who have never met / to commune with | |
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| | brother (polite appellation for a friend one's age) | |
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| | to skim froth or foam from the surface of a liquid | |
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| | (lit.) froth and shadows / (fig.) illusion; mirage | |
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| | with different father (e.g. of half-brother) | |
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| | meat soup / broth | |
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| | Warner Brothers | |
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| | hot pot / a dish where thinly sliced meat and vegetables are boiled briefly in a broth and then served with dipping sauces | |
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| | clear soup / white broth, also called 奶湯|奶汤 / decoction of chrysanthemum, liquorice and certain other herbs | |
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| | to regard sb as a brother (idiom) | |
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| | hydrotherapy / aquatherapy | |
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| | (literary) brothel / pleasure quarters | |
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| | hired (for employment) / invited (e.g. to lecture) / engaged (for a task) / (in olden times) betrothal gift from the groom's family | |
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| | Brothers! / brethren / dude (colloquial) / brother (diminutive form of address between males) | |
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| | wives of brothers; sisters-in-law | |
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| | wife of father's younger brother / aunt | |
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| | brotherly kindness | |
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| | twin brothers | |
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| | as close as one's hands and feet (idiom); loving one another as brothers / deep friendship / closely attached to one another | |
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| | junior partner in sworn brotherhood | |
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| | wife of father's elder brother (old) | |
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| | (idiom) eldest, second, third and youngest of brothers; order of seniority among brothers | |
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| | betrothal gift / bride price | |
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| | sworn brothers | |
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| | Morsi, Mursi or Morsy (name) / Mohamed Morsi (1951-2019), Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood politician, president of Egypt 2012-2013 | |
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| | eldest brother | |
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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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| | all men are brothers | |
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| | to swear brotherhood | |
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| | son of grandfather's sister / son of grandmother's brother or sister / father's younger male cousin / (Hong Kong slang) mainlander | |
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| | older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) | |
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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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| | noodle soup / noodles in soup / noodle broth | |
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| | (literary) (of a young lady) to be awaiting betrothal | |
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| | husband's older brother / father's older brother (esp. his oldest brother) | |
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