Your browser has no Korean voice installed, so audio can't be played.
NounSino-Korean: 兄
- 1
older brother
A word used only by a male to refer to or address his male siblings or cousins older than himself.
Korean definition: 남자가 형제나 친척 형제들 중에서 자기보다 나이가 많은 남자를 이르거나 부르는 말.
Father always favored my older brother over me.
She met her husband's older brother, that is, her future brother-in-law.
- 2
big brother
A word used only by a male to refer to or address another male older than himself endearingly.
Korean definition: 남자가 자기보다 나이 많은 남자를 다정하게 이르거나 부르는 말.
He introduced him to me as an older guy he knew well.
Through an introduction from an older guy in the neighborhood he was close to, he got a job at a small company.