弟
dì HSK1

younger brother

弟 dì
younger brother noun
a male sibling who is younger than oneself

我有一个亲弟弟。

wǒ yǒu yī gè qīn dì dì.

I have a biological younger brother.

I noun
a humble first-person pronoun used by a male in formal correspondence

愚弟近日安好，请兄放心。

yú dì jìn​rì ān​hǎo, qǐng xiōng fàng​xīn.

Your humble younger brother has been well lately; please rest assured, elder brother.

junior male noun
a younger man or a male of lower seniority in a social or professional context

他在给前辈的信中，末尾署名为“弟”以示尊重。

tā zài gěi qián​bèi de xìn zhōng, mò​wěi shǔ​míng wéi“ dì” yǐ shì zūn​zhòng.

In his letter to his senior, he signed off as 'your younger brother' as a mark of respect.

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Frequency
Character
Written text
816th most common 220.7 per million
Movie subtitles
392nd most common 379.3 per million appears in 57% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.96 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
18.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5F1F

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)