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I’ve always been terrible at diagnosing family relationships, what would be the end result in english? ( or any other language )

Edit: or is it a word or phrase that doesn’t exist in English?

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It’s largely a concept that doesn’t exist in English. All our parents’ siblings’ offspring are simply “cousins”; regardless of which parent, or which of their siblings, etc.

It represents the word 表妹 biao mei in Chinese, and is as normal a word as ‘cousin’ is in English.

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