"Brothers" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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兄弟 xiōng dì brothers / younger brother / CL:個|个[ge4] / I, me (humble term used by men in public speech) / brotherly / fraternal
弟兄 dì xiong brothers / comrade
手足 shǒu zú hands and feet / (fig.) brothers / retinue, henchmen, accomplices
弟兄们 dì xiōng men brothers / comrades / men / brethren
哥儿 gē r brothers / boys
昆仲 kūn zhòng (literary) brothers / elder and younger brother
哥们 gē men Brothers! / brethren / dude (colloquial) / brother (diminutive form of address between males)
大叔 dà shū eldest of father's younger brothers / uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father)
兄弟姐妹 xiōng dì jiě mèi brothers and sisters / siblings
结拜 jié bài to become sworn brothers or sisters / sworn (brothers)
难兄难弟 nàn xiōng nàn dì brothers in hardship (idiom) / fellow sufferers / in the same boat
隔山 gé shān half-sibling relationship / brothers with different mother / step-
情同手足 qíng tóng shǒu zú as close as one's hands and feet (idiom) / loving one another as brothers / deep friendship / closely attached to one another
神交 shén jiāo soul brothers / friends in spirit who have never met / to commune with
把兄弟 bǎ xiōng dì sworn brothers
六亲 liù qīn six close relatives, namely: father 父[fu4], mother 母[mu3], older brothers 兄[xiong1], younger brothers 弟[di4], wife 妻[qi1], male children 子[zi3] / one's kin
妯娌 zhóu li wives of brothers / sisters-in-law
伯 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]
季 jì season / the last month of a season / fourth or youngest amongst brothers / classifier for seasonal crop yields
孟 mèng first month of a season / eldest amongst brothers
仲 zhòng second month of a season / middle / intermediate / second amongst brothers
亲如手足 qīn rú shǒu zú as close as brothers (idiom) / deep friendship
四海之内皆兄弟 sì hǎi zhī nèi jiē xiōng dì all men are brothers
拜把子 bài bǎ zi to become sworn brothers
伯仲叔季 bó zhòng shū jì eldest / second / third and youngest of brothers / order of seniority among brothers
双生兄弟 shuāng shēng xiōng dì twin brothers
华纳兄弟 Huà nà xiōng dì Warner Brothers
玄武门之变 Xuán wǔ mén zhī biàn 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
九月九日忆山东兄弟 jiǔ yuè jiǔ rì yì Shān dōng xiōng dì Remembering my brothers in faraway Shandong on the double ninth festival (poem by Tang Wang Wei's 王維|王维)
五常 wǔ cháng five constant virtues of Confucianism, namely: benevolence 仁, righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom 智 / and fidelity 信 / five cardinal relationships of Confucianism (between ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, brothers, friends) / five phases of Chinese philosophy: water 水, fire 火, wood 木, metal 金, earth 土
卡拉马佐夫兄弟 Kǎ lā mǎ zuǒ fū xiōng dì Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基[Tuo2 si1 tuo3 ye1 fu1 si1 ji1]
悌睦 tì mù to live at peace as brothers
雷曼兄弟 Léi màn Xiōng dì Lehman Brothers, investment bank
贫民小昆仲会国际联合会  International Federation of the Little Brothers of the Poor
慈善兄弟会  Brothers of Charity
洛克菲勒兄弟基金会  Rockefeller Brothers Fund
孔融让梨 Kǒng Róng ràng lí Kong Rong giving up pears, classic moral story about Kong Rong 孔融[Kong3 Rong2] picking up smaller pears while leaving the bigger ones to his older brothers, still used nowadays to educate the young on courtesy and modesty
华纳兄弟 Huá nà Xiōng dì Warner Brothers
孪生兄弟 luán shēng xiōng dì twin brothers
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