"Brother" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 gē men Brothers! / brethren / dude (colloquial) / brother (diminutive form of address between males)
 xiōng tái brother (polite appellation for a friend one's age)
 jù ěr (archaic) brother
 xiōng dì brothers / younger brother / CL:個|个[ge4] / I, me (humble term used by men in public speech) / brotherly / fraternal
 dà gē eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader / boss
 gē ge older brother / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
 dì di younger brother / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
 xiǎo dì little brother / I, your little brother (humble)
 shū shu father's younger brother / uncle / Taiwan pr. [shu2 shu5] / CL:個|个[ge4]
 dà ye (coll.) father's older brother / uncle / term of respect for older man
 lǎo xiōng elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy
 èr gē second brother
 jiù jiu mother's brother / maternal uncle (informal) / CL:個|个[ge4]
 bó bo father's elder brother / uncle
 xiōng zhǎng elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age
 xiǎo dì di little brother / little boy / (coll.) penis
 bó fù father's elder brother / term of respect for older man / CL:個|个[ge4]
 bó mǔ 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[ge4]
 dà big / huge / large / major / great / wide / deep / older (than) / oldest / eldest / greatly / very much / (dialect) father / father's elder or younger brother
 dà bó husband's older brother / brother-in-law
 shū fù father's younger brother / uncle
 ā gē (familiar) elder brother
 shěn shen wife of father's younger brother / aunt
 xián dì worthy little brother
 lǎo dà gē big brother
 nán xiōng nán dì lit. hard to differentiate between elder and younger brother (idiom) / fig. one is just as bad as the other
 jiù fù mother's brother / maternal uncle
 xiǎo shū husband's younger brother / brother-in-law
 xiǎo jiù zi (coll.) wife's younger brother
 Zhōu Zuò rén Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), brother of Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4], academic in Japanese and Greek studies, briefly imprisoned after the war as Japanese collaborator, persecuted and died of unknown causes during the Cultural Revolution
 shū gōng great uncle / grandfather's younger brother / husband's father's younger brother
 zhǎng xiōng eldest brother
 biǎo shū son of grandfather's sister / son of grandmother's brother or sister / father's younger male cousin / (Hong Kong slang) mainlander
 jiù mǔ wife of mother's brother / aunt / maternal uncle's wife
 Wáng Dǎo Wang Dao (276-339), powerful official of Jin dynasty and brother of general Wang Dun 王敦, regent of Jin from 325
 xiōng sǎo elder brother and his wife
 dà jiù zi (coll.) wife's older brother
 nèi dì wife's younger brother
 lìng dì honorable little brother
 shè dì my younger brother (humble term)
 kūn zhòng (literary) brothers / elder and younger brother
 shū mǔ aunt / wife of father's younger brother
 gē elder brother
 shěn mǔ wife of father's younger brother / aunt
 dì younger brother / junior male / I (modest word in letter)
 bó 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[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
 xiōng elder brother
 shū uncle / father's younger brother / husband's younger brother / Taiwan pr. [shu2]
 kūn descendant / elder brother / a style of Chinese poetry
 shěn wife of father's younger brother
 dì wife of a younger brother
 tì to do one's duty as a younger brother
 jìn wife of mother's brother
 sì wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old)
 bù fēn bó zhòng lit. unable to distinguish eldest brother from second brother (idiom) / they are all equally excellent / nothing to choose between them
 xiào tì zhōng xìn 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
 ā dì younger brother
 jiā xiōng (polite) my elder brother
 shū zǔ mǔ wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother
 dà bǎi zi (coll.) husband's elder brother
 bó shū zǔ fù father's father's brother / great uncle
 kūn descendant / elder brother
 nèi xiōng wife's older brother
 yòu dì younger brother
 Suí Yáng dì Emperor Yang of Sui (569-618), said to have murdered his father and brother to seize the throne, reigned 604-618
 Wáng Dūn Wang Dun (266-324), powerful general of Jin dynasty and brother of civil official Wang Dao 王導|王导, subsequently rebellious warlord 322-324
 lìng xiōng Your esteemed older brother (honorific)
 shū zi brother-in-law / husband's younger brother
 shū zǔ grandfather's younger brother
 sì dé four Confucian injunctions 孝悌忠信 / (for men), namely: piety 孝 / to one's parents, respect 悌 / to one's older brother, loyalty 忠 / to one's monarch, faith 信 / to one's male friends / the four Confucian virtues for women of morality 德[de2], physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 / and efficiency in needlework 功
 jì zǐ youngest brother / a period of two or three months
 nián xiōng lit. older brother / fig. fellow students who are successful in the imperial examinations
广 Kāng Guǎng rén Kang Guangren (1867-1898), younger brother of Kang Youwei 康有為|康有为[Kang1 You3 wei2] and one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 / of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
 yù dì emperor's young brother
 Lǐ Jiàn chéng Li Jiancheng (589-626), eldest son of first Tang emperor Li Yuan 唐高祖李淵|唐高祖李渊, murdered by his brother 李世民 / in the Xuanwu Gate coup 玄武門之變|玄武门之变 / Professor Li Jiancheng (1964-), geophysicist and specialist in satellite geodesy
 Bái Xíng jiǎn Bai Xingjian (c. 776-826), younger brother of Bai Juyi 白居易[Bai2 Ju1 yi4], Tang novelist and poet, author of novel Tale of Courtesan Li Wa 李娃傳|李娃传[Li3 Wa2 Zhuan4]
 méng xiōng dì sworn brother
 Mǐ gāo yáng Mikoyan (name) / Anastas Ivanonovich Mikoyan (1895-1978), Soviet politician, politburo member in the 1950s and 1960s / Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (1905-1970), brother of the politician and one designer of MiG military aircraft
 shì tóng shǒu zú to regard sb as a brother (idiom)
 ā xiōng elder brother
 qīn xiōng dì , míng suàn zhàng even with your own brother, keep clear accounts (idiom)
 bó shū father's brother (uncle) / husband's brother (brother-in-law)
 jiā dì (polite) my younger brother
 ōu bā (female usage) older brother (loanword from Korean "oppa") / male friend
 fú dì mó (coll.) (neologism c. 2017, a play on 伏地魔[Fu2 di4 mo2]) woman who devotes herself to supporting her little brother (assisting him with his studies, giving money to help him buy a house etc)
 shì mǔ wife of father's elder brother (old)
 kūn yù honorific term for another person's brother
 zhòng fù father's younger brother / (sometimes used to refer to Confucius)
 Bó Yì kǎo Bo Yikao, eldest son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王[Zhou1 Wen2 wang2] and the elder brother of King Wu 周武王[Zhou1 Wu3 wang2] who was the founder of the Zhou Dynasty 周朝[Zhou1 chao2] of ancient China
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