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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *弟* | 弟* | *弟
younger brother / junior male / I (modest word in letter)
HSK 1
younger brother / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
brothers / younger brother / CL: 個|个 / I, me (humble term used by men in public speech) / brotherly / fraternal
HSK 4
apprentice / disciple
HSK 6
child / the younger generation
HSK 7-9
little brother / I, your little brother (humble)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *弟* | 弟* | *弟
variant of
young disciple (of the same master) / younger or junior male schoolmate
fellow apprentices; fellow students (male)
(affectionate form of address for a male who is not very much younger than oneself) my boy / old pal
little brother / little boy / (coll.) penis
father's brother's sons / paternal male cousin
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
(of a lazy or incompetent teacher) to hamper students' progress / (of media) to propagate errors / to lead people astray
wife's younger brother
twin brothers
worthy little brother
male cousins via female line
sworn brothers
caddie (golf)
younger brother
all men are brothers
younger male patrilineal cousin
junior partner in sworn brotherhood
sworn brother
dandy / fop / lounge lizard
child of a Manchu bannerman family (nobility) / (fig.) privileged brat
honorable little brother
(honorific written address to younger man) My dear young friend
Chinese opera performers
younger stepbrother
my younger brother (humble term)
husband of wife's younger sister
descended from an old family
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基
younger fellow student
younger male cousin via female line
Lehman Brothers, investment bank
hedonistic son of rich parents
younger brother
variant of 愷悌|恺悌
Warner Brothers
junior or younger male schoolmate
(polite) my younger brother
emperor's young brother
twin brothers


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