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兄弟
Mandarin · pinyin xiōng dì
Meanings
- brothers
- younger brother
- Classifier: 個 gè
- I, me (humble term used by men in public speech)
- brotherly
- fraternal
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1–4 · xiong1 di4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
hing1 dai6
Cantonese word readings for 兄弟. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
noun
- (literal) brother
- (literal) brethren; brothers and sisters; siblings
- (figurative) brothers; close friends; good friends (Classifier: 位 m)
- (neologism, fandom slang, chiefly masculine) term to address fellow/peer-netizens on social media platforms
- gangster
- (Cantonese) groomsman
noun
- (Mandarin, Gan, Jin, dialectal Wu, colloquial) younger brother
- (colloquial) my brother; bro (A term of address for a close friend of similar age or younger)
pron
- A humble term of self-address used by a man to people of the same generation.
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