兄

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 口 + 儿.

Han character

兄 (radical 10 儿+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 口竹山 (RHU), four-corner 6021₀, composition ⿱口儿)

1. elder brother

Derived characters

• 兌 兑 況 (况)

Related characters

• 克

References

• KangXi: page 123, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1343
• Dae Jaweon: page 259, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 266, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5144

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Cantonese

Hanzi

兄 (jyutping hing1, Yale hing1)

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Japanese

Kanji

兄 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: けい (kei), きょう (kyō)
• Kun: あに (ani), え (e), せ (se), おのかみ (onokami)

Compounds

Compounds

兄弟 (きょうだい, kyōdai) 阿兄 従兄 家兄 雅兄 学兄 貴兄 義兄 (ぎけい, gikei) 愚兄 賢兄 舎兄 諸兄 慈兄 次兄 実兄 (じっけい, jikkei) 仁兄

尊兄 大兄 仲兄 長兄 伯兄 父兄 亡兄 令兄 兄嫁 兄貴 (あにき, aniki) 兄後 兄姉 兄事 兄上 兄妹

Etymology 1

Noun

兄 (hiragana あに, romaji ani)

1. one's own elder brother

Synonyms

• 兄さん
• お兄さん (おにいさん, oniisan)
• 兄ちゃん
• お兄ちゃん

Idioms

• 兄たり難く弟たり難し

Etymology 2

Noun

兄 (hiragana え, romaji e)

1. an elder sibling

Etymology 3

Noun

兄 (hiragana せ, romaji se)

1. a woman's brother
2. a woman's lover or husband

Derived terms

• いろせ (irose)
• 汝兄 (nase)
• 兄子 (seko)
• 兄な (sena)
• 兄ろ (sero)

Etymology 4

Compound of ko (“child”) + no (“genitive case marker”) + kami (“upper”).

Noun

兄 (hiragana このかみ, romaji konokami)

1. an elder sibling

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Korean

Hanja

兄
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 형, 황 (revised: hyeong, hwang, McCune-Reischauer: hyŏng, hwang, Yale: hyeng, hwang)

• Name (hangeul): 형, 두려워하다 (revised: hyeong, duryeowohada, McCune-Reischauer: hyŏng, turyŏwŏhada, Yale: hyeng, twuryewehata)

1. elder brother
2. fear, dread, be afraid of, stand in fear of, be frightened at, have a horror of

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

兄 (pinyin xiōng (xiong1), Wade-Giles hsiung¹)

Compounds

• 兄弟
• 兄弟阋墙
• 兄嫂
• 兄台
• 兄长
• 襟兄

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Vietnamese

Han character

兄 (huynh)