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]

person (亻) + white (白) = the elder uncle figure

The person radical grounds this character in human relationships. 白 mainly contributes the bó sound; the seniority meaning likely extends from an older sense of 'head' or 'chief' among people.

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A personSemantic
WhitePhonetic

我小时候常去父家吃饭。

wǒ xiǎo shí hou cháng qù bó fù jiā chī fàn 。

When I was little, I often went to my father's elder brother's home to eat.

他是欧洲一个古老家族的爵。

tā shì ōu zhōu yī gè gǔ lǎo jiā zú de bó jué 。

He is a count of an old European family.

Words with 伯

邵伯湖

shào bó hú

Shaobo Lake, freshwater lake in Jiangsu Province

都伯林

dū bó lín

also written 都柏林

里长伯

lǐ zhǎng bó

neighborhood warden

金伯利岩

jīn bó lì yán

Kimberlite (geology)

锡伯

xī bó

Xibo ethnic group of northeast China

锡伯族

xī bó zú

Xibo ethnic group of northeast China

开伯尔

kāi bó ěr

Khyber province of Pakistan

开伯尔山口

kāi bó ěr shān kǒu

Khyber pass (between Pakistand and Afghanistan)

阿伯丁

ā bó dīng

Aberdeen (city on east coast of Scotland)

阿拉伯

ā lā bó

Arabian

阿拉伯人

ā lā bó rén

Arab

阿拉伯共同市场

ā lā bó gòng tóng shì chǎng

Arab Common Market

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