"Elder" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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长老 zhǎng lǎo elder / term of respect for a Buddhist monk
元老 yuán lǎo senior figure / elder / doyen
长 zhǎng chief / head / elder / to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance
大姐 dà jiě big sister / elder sister / older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker)
老兄 lǎo xiōng elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy
族长 zú zhǎng clan elder
伯伯 bó bo father's elder brother / uncle
兄长 xiōng zhǎng elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age
大妈 dà mā father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman)
大嫂 dà sǎo older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman)
伯父 bó fù father's elder brother / term of respect for older man / CL:個|个[ge4]
伯母 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]
阿哥 ā gē (familiar) elder brother
父兄 fù xiōng father and elder brother(s) / head of the family / patriarch
难兄难弟 nán xiōng nán dì lit. hard to differentiate between elder and younger brother (idiom) / fig. one is just as bad as the other
兄嫂 xiōng sǎo elder brother and his wife
昆仲 kūn zhòng (literary) brothers / elder and younger brother
哥 gē elder brother
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]
兄 xiōng elder brother
昆 kūn descendant / elder brother / a style of Chinese poetry
芨 jí Bletilla hyacinthina (mucilaginous) / Acronym for the Chinese Elder tree 菫草
姒 sì wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old)
家兄 jiā xiōng (polite) my elder brother
大伯子 dà bǎi zi (coll.) husband's elder brother
晜 kūn descendant / elder brother
嬃 xū elder sister
姨姐 yí jiě wife's elder sister / sister-in-law
夏敬渠 Xià Jìng qú Xia Jingqu (1705-1787), Qing novelist, author of monumental novel 野叟曝言[Ye3 sou3 Pu4 yan2] Humble Words of a Rustic Elder
接骨木 jiē gǔ mù elder or elderberry (genus Sambucus)
道高益安，势高益危 dào gāo yì ān , shì gāo yì wēi More moral strength increases one's safety, more power and influence increases one's danger (idiom, from Records of the Historian 史記|史记). cf Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it (William Pitt the Elder, 1770).
野叟曝言 Yě sǒu Pù yán Yesou Puyan or Humble Words of a Rustic Elder, monumental Qing novel by Xia Jingqu 夏敬渠[Xia4 Jing4 qu2]
阿兄 ā xiōng elder brother
防止虐待老年人世界日  World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
防止虐待老年人国际网络  International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse
媭 xū (dialect) elder sister (old)
世母 shì mǔ wife of father's elder brother (old)
伯邑考 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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