昆仲

kūnzhòng

noun #69,621

Meanings

HSK 5

他们二人是亲昆仲。

Tāmen èr rén shì qīn kūnzhòng.

The two of them are blood brothers.

HSK 5

信中向您及昆仲问好。

Xìn zhōng xiàng nín jí kūnzhòng wènhǎo.

In the letter I send regards to you and your brothers.

Literary and old-fashioned. In modern speech use 兄弟 (brothers); 昆仲 mostly survives in formal letters and obituaries.

memory

昆 originally means 'elder brother' (as in 昆季) and 仲 means 'second/middle' - the pair literally encodes 'older and younger.'

昆 kūn

仲 zhòng