Judging whether a female relative older than you is a cousin or a cousin mainly depends on the relationship between her parents and yours.

Cousin refers to the daughter of my father's brother, that is, the daughter of uncle/Guanzhong/uncle/Ji's father, so if the other father is your father's brother, the woman is your cousin; The daughter of an older uncle, aunt or aunt is called a cousin, so if the other parent is your mother's brother or sister or the other mother is your father's sister, then the woman is your cousin.

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Kinship is a social relationship based on marriage, consanguinity and legal fiction.

The legal kinship in our country includes husband and wife, parents, children, brothers and sisters, grandparents and grandparents, grandchildren and grandchildren, daughter-in-law and in-laws, son-in-law and in-laws and other collateral blood relatives within three generations, such as uncles, uncles, aunts, nephews, cousins and so on.

Relatives are not equal to family members, and people with relatives may belong to different families; Family members have no absolute blood relationship.

According to the causes of kinship, relatives can be divided into three categories: spouse, blood relatives and in-laws.

Blood relatives include natural blood relatives and fictional blood relatives, the former refers to relatives who are related by the same ancestor; The latter refers to relatives who are not related by blood, but are legally recognized as having the same rights and obligations as blood relatives because they meet certain conditions, such as stepparents, stepchildren, adoptive parents, adopted children, etc.

In-laws refer to relatives other than spouses who are mediated by marriage, including blood spouses, blood spouses and blood spouses. In-laws have rights and obligations only under special circumstances stipulated by law.