妻兄

Chinese

		wife; to marry off (a daughter)	elder brother
trad. (妻兄)		妻	兄
simp. #(妻兄)		妻	兄

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qīxiōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧ ㄒㄩㄥ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qīxiōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧ ㄒㄩㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cisyong
    • Wade–Giles: chʻi¹-hsiung¹
    • Yale: chī-syūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chishiong
    • Palladius: цисюн (cisjun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵ ɕi̯ʊŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

妻兄

1. wife's elder brother

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 大舅子 (“brother-in-law (wife's elder brother)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		大舅子, 婦兄, 內兄, 妻兄
Mandarin	Beijing	大舅子
	Harbin	大舅子, 大舅哥
	Yantai (Muping)	大舅子
	Jinan	大舅子, 大舅子哥, 內兄
	Luoyang	大舅子, 內兄
	Wanrong (Ronghe)	大舅子
	Xi'an	丈兒哥
	Yinchuan	妻哥
	Xining	大舅子
	Ürümqi	大舅子, 妻哥
	Wuhan	大舅佬, 舅兄
	Chengdu	大舅子
	Guiyang	大舅子, 大舅 non-face-to-face
	Liuzhou	大舅子
	Xuzhou	內兄
	Yangzhou	大舅爺, 舅子
	Nanjing	大舅子, 大舅爺 respectful
	Hefei	大舅子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	大舅
	Hong Kong	大舅
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	大舅
	Macau	大舅
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	大舅
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	大舅
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	大舅
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	大舅
	Foshan	大舅
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	大舅
	Foshan (Shunde)	大舅
	Foshan (Sanshui)	大舅
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	大舅
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	大舅
	Zhuhai (Qianshan)	大舅
	Zhuhai (Doumen, Shangheng Tanka)	大舅
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	大舅
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	大舅
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	大舅
	Taishan	大舅
	Kaiping (Chikan)	大舅
	Enping (Niujiang)	大舅
	Heshan (Yayao)	大舅
	Dongguan	大舅 eldest
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	大舅
	Yangjiang	大舅
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	大舅
Gan	Nanchang	大舅子, 內兄
	Pingxiang	內兄
Hakka	Meixian	大舅 eldest
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	大舅
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	大舅
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	大舅
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	大舅佬
	Conghua (Lütian)	內兄
	Yudu	內兄
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	大舅 eldest
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	大舅 eldest
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	大舅 eldest
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	大舅 eldest
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	大舅 eldest
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	大舅 eldest
	Senai (Huiyang)	大舅
Huizhou	Jixi	內兄
Jin	Taiyuan	大舅子, 大兄哥
Northern Min	Jian'ou	大舅 eldest, 大舅仔 eldest, 老媽舅
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	大舅 eldest
Southern Min	Xiamen	大舅仔, 大舅 eldest
	Quanzhou	大舅仔
	Zhangzhou	大舅仔
	Chaozhou	大舅
	Jieyang	大舅
	Bangkok (Teochew)	大舅
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	大舅
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	大舅
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	大舅
Wu	Shanghai	大舅子, 內兄
	Suzhou	阿舅
	Hangzhou	大舅佬
	Wenzhou	阿舅
	Jinhua	大舅
Xiang	Changsha	大舅子, 內兄
	Loudi	大舅哥 non-face-to-face
	Shuangfeng	阿舅子