從兄

Chinese

		from; obey; observe from; obey; observe; follow; second cousin; lax; yielding; unhurried	elder brother
trad. (從兄)		從	兄
simp. (从兄)		从	兄

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cóngxiōng, zòngxiōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄥˊ ㄒㄩㄥ, ㄗㄨㄥˋ ㄒㄩㄥ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cóngxiōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄥˊ ㄒㄩㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cóngsyong
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻung²-hsiung¹
    • Yale: tsúng-syūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsorngshiong
    • Palladius: цунсюн (cunsjun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰʊŋ³⁵ ɕi̯ʊŋ⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zòngxiōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄥˋ ㄒㄩㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zòngsyong
    • Wade–Giles: tsung⁴-hsiung¹
    • Yale: dzùng-syūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzonqshiong
    • Palladius: цзунсюн (czunsjun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵¹ ɕi̯ʊŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

從兄

1. cousin (father's brother's son older than oneself)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 堂兄 (“cousin (father's brother's son older than oneself)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		從兄
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		堂兄, 堂哥, 從兄
Mandarin	Taiwan	堂兄, 堂哥
	Harbin	叔伯哥哥
	Yantai (Muping)	叔伯兒哥
	Jinan	叔伯哥哥
	Wanrong	伯叔哥
	Xi'an	叔伯哥
	Yinchuan	堂兄
	Lanzhou	堂哥
	Xining	叔伯哥哥
	Ürümqi	叔伯哥哥
	Wuhan	叔伯哥哥
	Chengdu	叔伯哥哥
	Guiyang	堂哥
	Liuzhou	叔伯哥
	Xuzhou	堂兄
	Yangzhou	堂房哥哥, 堂兄, 堂哥
	Nanjing	堂哥哥, 堂哥, 堂兄
	Singapore	堂哥
Cantonese	Guangzhou	疏堂大佬, 堂大佬
	Hong Kong	堂大佬
	Dongguan	叔伯大佬
Gan	Nanchang	叔伯哥哥
	Lichuan	堂下箇兄, 堂兄
Hakka	Meixian	叔伯阿哥
	Yudu	堂兄
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	叔伯阿哥
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	叔伯阿哥
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	叔伯阿哥
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	叔伯阿哥
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	叔伯阿哥
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	叔伯阿哥
Huizhou	Jixi	叔伯哥, 堂哥
Jin	Taiyuan	叔伯哥哥
	Xinzhou	叔伯哥哥
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	叔伯哥, 堂兄
	Fuqing	叔伯哥, 堂兄
	Matsu	叔伯哥
	Singapore (Fuqing)	叔伯哥
Southern Min	Xiamen	隔腹兄
	Quanzhou	隔腹兄
	Zhangzhou	隔腹兄
	Tainan	叔伯兄哥
	Penang (Hokkien)	堂哥
	Singapore (Hokkien)	隔腹阿兄, 隔腹兄
	Manila (Hokkien)	隔腹阿兄
	Leizhou	堂尼兄, 隔皮尼兄
	Haikou	從兄
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	堂老兄
Wu	Shanghai	堂兄, 堂阿哥, 堂房阿哥
	Shanghai (Chongming)	叔伯阿哥
	Suzhou	堂兄, 堂房阿哥
	Danyang	堂兄, 房門哥哥
	Hangzhou	堂阿哥
	Ningbo	堂阿哥
	Wenzhou	堂房阿哥, 叔伯阿哥, 叔伯兄弟, 堂房兄弟
	Jinhua	叔伯哥
Xiang	Changsha	堂兄
	Loudi	排房老兄, 叔伯哥哥