Word details
お兄ちゃん
Meanings, readings, and example sentences for the Japanese word お兄ちゃん.
Dictionary
Entry
1
Familiar
(one's) older brother
Examples
「百八といえば煩悩の数だ」「お兄ちゃんはどんな煩悩があるの？」「言ってもいいが、検閲削除になるぞ」
"Talking about 108, that's the number of worldly passions." "What worldly passions have you got then?" "I could say, but it'll get censored out."
2
Familiar; Oft. vocative
lad; sonny
Examples
ママー、今あのおにいちゃんすごいころんだよー。
Mummy, that man just fell flat on his face!
Character notes
Kanji in this Word
兄
elder brother, big brother
5 strokesFrequency 1,219JLPT N3Grade 2
On
ケイキョウ
Kun
あに
Nanori
えせよし
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