长 老 zhǎng lǎo elder / term of respect for a Buddhist monk 元 老 yuán lǎo senior figure / elder / doyen 长 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] 大 big / huge / large / major / great / wide / deep / older (than) / oldest / eldest / greatly / very much / (dialect) father / father's elder or younger brother 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 elder brother 伯 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 elder brother 昆 descendant / elder brother / a style of Chinese poetry 芨 Bletilla hyacinthina (mucilaginous) / Acronym for the Chinese Elder tree 菫草 姒 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 descendant / elder brother 嬃 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 (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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