"Eldest" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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大 dà big / huge / large / major / great / wide / deep / older (than) / oldest / eldest / greatly / very much / (dialect) father / father's elder or younger brother
最年长 zuì nián zhǎng eldest
伯仲叔季 bó zhòng shū jì eldest / second / third and youngest of brothers / order of seniority among brothers
大哥 dà gē eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader / boss
老大 lǎo dà old age / very / eldest child in a family / leader of a group / boss / captain of a boat / leader of a criminal gang
大叔 dà shū eldest of father's younger brothers / uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father)
长子 zhǎng zǐ eldest son
长孙 zhǎng sūn eldest grandson / the eldest son of one's eldest son
长女 zhǎng nu:3 eldest daughter
大姨 dà yí aunt (mother's eldest sister) / (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother)
长兄 zhǎng xiōng eldest brother
大姨妈 dà yí mā mother's eldest sister (older than one's mother) / (coll.) (euphemism) Aunt Flo (i.e. menstrual period)
李显龙 Lǐ Xiǎn lóng Lee Hsien Loong (1952-), Singapore PAP politician, eldest son of Lee Kuan Yew 李光耀[Li3 Guang1 yao4], prime minister from 2004
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]
孟 mèng first month of a season / eldest amongst brothers
不分伯仲 bù fēn bó zhòng lit. unable to distinguish eldest brother from second brother (idiom) / they are all equally excellent / nothing to choose between them
金正男 Jīn Zhèng nán Kim Jong-nam (1971-2017), the eldest son of Kim Jong-il 金正日[Jin1 Zheng4 ri4]
三阿姨 sān ā yí auntie, third eldest of sisters in mother's family
二阿姨 èr ā yí auntie, second eldest of sisters in mother's family
夏洛特·勃良特  Charlotte Brontë / (1816-1855), English novelist, eldest of three Brontë / sisters, author of Jane Eyre 簡·愛|简·爱
大阿姨 dà ā yí auntie, eldest of sisters in mother's family
承重孙 chéng zhòng sūn eldest grandson (to sustain upper storeys of ancestor worship)
李建成 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
胄子 zhòu zǐ eldest son
大小姐 dà xiǎo jie eldest daughter of an affluent family / (polite) your daughter / bossy or indulged young woman / Miss High and Mighty
夏洛特・勃良特 Xià luò tè · Bó liáng tè Charlotte Brontë / (1816-1855), English novelist, eldest of three Brontë / sisters, author of Jane Eyre 簡・愛|简・爱[Jian3 Ai4]
长男 zhǎng nán eldest son
夏洛特·勃良特 Xià luò tè · Bó liáng tè Charlotte Brontë / (1816-1855), English novelist, eldest of three Brontë / sisters, author of Jane Eyre 簡·愛|简·爱[Jian3 · / Ai4]
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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