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兄弟

xiōng dì 1–4

brothers; younger brother; I, me (humble term used by men in public speech); brotherly; fraternal

HSK level
HSK 4
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 4
Characters
2
兄 · 弟
Syllables
2
xiōng dì
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,060

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 兄xiōng5 strokesHSK 4elder brother
  • 弟dì7 strokesHSK 1young brother; junior; I, me

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 他们是我的兄弟。

    Tā men shì wǒ de xiōng dì

    They are my brothers.

  • 我们都是兄弟们。

    Wǒ men dōu shì xiōng dì men

    We are brothers.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 兄弟. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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