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"clan elder" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
族长 族長 zú zhǎng clan elder
Chinese Pinyin Translation
长 長 zhǎng chief / head / elder / to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance syn
老兄 lǎo xiōng elder brother (often used self-referentially) / (form of address between male friends) old chap / buddy syn
家族 jiā zú family / clan syn
族人 zú rén clansman / clan members / relatives / ethnic minority
家门 家門 jiā mén house door / family clan syn
长老 長老 zhǎng lǎo elder / term of respect for a Buddhist monk syn
元老 yuán lǎo senior figure / elder / doyen syn
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) syn
部族 bù zú tribe / clan syn
大妈 大媽 dà mā father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman) syn
兄长 兄長 xiōng zhǎng elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age syn
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] syn
伯父 bó fù father's elder brother / term of respect for older man / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
氏族 shì zú clan
大嫂 dà sǎo older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) syn
伯伯 bó bo father's elder brother / uncle syn
族类 族類 zú lèi clan / race
阿哥 ā gē (familiar) elder brother syn
望族 wàng zú distinguished or prominent family / influential clan (old) syn
本家 běn jiā a member of the same clan / a distant relative with the same family name syn
宗族 zōng zú clan / clansman
父兄 fù xiōng father and elder brother(s) / head of the family / patriarch syn
辈分 輩分 bèi fèn seniority in the family or clan / position in the family hierarchy syn
大族 dà zú large and influential family / clan syn
一族 yī zú social group / subculture / family / clan / see also 族[zu2]
集群 jí qún clan / to clan together / to flock together
宗主 zōng zhǔ head of a clan / natural leader / person of prestige and authority in a domain / suzerain
宗室 zōng shì imperial clan / member of the imperial clan / clansman / ancestral shrine syn
难兄难弟 難兄難弟 nán xiōng nán dì lit. hard to differentiate between elder and younger brother (idiom) / fig. one is just as bad as the other syn
神农氏 神農氏 shén nóng shì Shennong or Farmer God (c. 2000 BC), first of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yan2 di4] and creator of agriculture in China / followers or clan of Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2]
亲族 親族 qīn zú relatives / members of the same family, clan, tribe etc syn
兄嫂 xiōng sǎo elder brother and his wife syn
室 shì room / work unit / grave / scabbard / family or clan / one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy syn
哥 gē elder brother syn
族 zú race / nationality / ethnicity / clan / by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族) syn
堂 táng (main) hall / large room for a specific purpose / CL:間|间[jian1] / relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family / of the same clan / classifier for classes, lectures etc / classifier for sets of furniture syn
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] syn
宗 zōng school / sect / purpose / model / ancestor / clan / to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work) / classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs syn
氏 shì clan name / maiden name syn
兄 xiōng elder brother syn
昆 kūn descendant / elder brother / a style of Chinese poetry syn
德川 dé chuān Tokugawa, the ruling clan of Japan from 1550-1850
昆仲 kūn zhòng (literary) brothers / elder and younger brother syn
芨 jí Bletilla hyacinthina (mucilaginous) / Acronym for the Chinese Elder tree 菫草
姒 sì wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old)
家兄 jiā xiōng (polite) my elder brother syn
大伯子 dà bǎi zi (coll.) husband's elder brother
族权 族權 zú quán clan authority / clan power
势族 勢族 shì zú influential family / powerful clan
吊瓶族 diào píng zú "infusion clan", patients who prefer medication by drip rather than orally or by injection etc
奔奔族 bēn bēn zú lit. Rushing Clan, generation born between 1975-1985 and China's most hedonistic and hard-working social group (netspeak)
联宗 聯宗 lián zōng combined branches of a clan
宗正 zōng zhèng Director of the Imperial Clan in imperial China, one of the Nine Ministers 九卿[jiu3 qing1]
郡望 jùn wàng choronym (a family's region of origin, used as an indicator of superior social status in a surname-choronym combination) (For example, the Tang writer Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈[Han2 Yu4] is also known as 韓昌黎|韩昌黎[Han2 Chang1li2], where 韓|韩[Han2] is his surname and 昌黎[Chang1li2] is his clan's ancestral prefecture 郡[jun4].)
钮祜禄 鈕祜祿 niǔ hù lù Niohuru (prominent Manchu clan)
单传 單傳 dān chuán to have only one heir in a generation (of a family, clan etc) / to be learned from only one master (of a skill, art etc)
宗祠 zōng cí ancestral temple / clan hall syn
宗法 zōng fǎ patriarchal clan system
辈分 輩分 bèi fen seniority in the family or clan / position in the family hierarchy / Taiwan pr. [bei4fen4] syn
晜 kūn descendant / elder brother
嬃 xū 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)
羊角芹 yáng jiǎo qín ground-elder (Aegopodium podagraria)
见背 見背 jiàn bēi (formal, tactful) (of an elder) to pass away
道高益安，势高益危 道高益安，勢高益危 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 防止虐待老年人國際網絡 International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse
媭 嬃 xū (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
见背 見背 jiàn bèi (formal, tactful) (of an elder) to pass away
适老化 適老化 shì lǎo huà to make (products, living spaces etc) suitable for the elderly / (attributive) senior-friendly / elder-accessible
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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