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Part of the contact management framework. The label for the contact’s mother’s sibling’s younger son or father’s sister’s younger son.

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[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That has to be because in Chinese there is a single word for it, like for so many other relative nouns.

... I think I found it : 老表 (laobiao) Defined as "male cousin (on the maternal side or on the paternal aunt's side)"

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think this is just 表弟 (younger male cousin). 老表 is too casual to be used as a tag in phone book.

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