How do you write cousin in Mandarin?

Answer 1

This depends if it's a:

Older cousin (male): 表兄/表哥 <--- usually this one is used

Older cousin (female): 表姊

Younger cousin (male): 表弟

Younger cousin (female): 表妹

(You can copy these Chinese letters and paste them onto your document and make them larger to read.)

Also:

表 - Something you put in front of the following letters to make them into cousins

兄 (哥哥) - Older brother

弟 (弟弟) - Younger brother

姊 (姊姊) - Older sister ( for simplified Chinese it is 姐)

妹 (妹妹) - Younger sister

兄弟姊妹 - Something people refer as the sibling order

By the way, the list (up above) that contains "表"is usually used for your mother's side of the family.

-- The doubled letters in the parentheses is how people usually say them --

For cousins on the paternal side, replace 表 with 堂 tang(2), everything else remains the same.

Answer 2

Cousin in Mandarin is written as "堂兄弟" (táng xiōng dì) for male cousins and "堂姐妹" (táng jiě mèi) for female cousins.