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by frfl 1055 days ago
Maybe the Wikipedia page was just updated, following this post, but it's fairly clear right now. It says fairly clearly in the infobox, "Jensen Huang (表舅 or first cousin once removed)"
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> It says fairly clearly in the infobox, "Jensen Huang (表舅 or first cousin once removed)"

It was already there, but depending where you're from, "first cousin once removed" might not mean anything to you, especially if English is not your mother tongue. Seeing a family tree makes it clear for everyone regardless of language or culture what the relationship is.

I would be willing to bet that 95% of native English speakers can't confidently define "first cousin once removed" (though most of them will have heard the term).
Except it doesn't! In fact, first cousin once removed(FCOR) can mean both: your parent's sibling's grandchild, OR your grandparent's sibling's child. These are usually two very different relationships(if they exist) - the former FCOR is usually much younger than you, like a niece/nephew, and the latter FCOR is usually much older than you, and more like an aunt/uncle

I wager most native English speakers understand the concept of cousin, but not first/second/etc cousins, nor once/twice/etc removed.

"once removed" is not clear at all. To me, it reads like nonsense.
It's a standard term. I'll assume you're familiar with 'cousin' (in the strict English/western sense), aka (rarely, only really in contradistinction) 'first cousin'.

1. Your parents' [first] cousins' children are your 'second cousins';

2. Your parents' second cousins' children are your 'third cousins' (and so on);

3. Your parents' [first] cousins are your '[first] cousins once removed';

4. Your parents' second cousins are your 'second cousins once removed' (and so on);

5. Your parents' [first] cousins once removed are your '[first] cousins twice removed' (and so on).

"once removed" is such a strange term to me. It reads like they become first cousins only once something unspecified was removed. Like "once the tumor was removed the patient survived".

I'm obviously not a native English speaker.

'Removed' is (also) used like degrees of separation, if you're familiar with Bacon or Erdos numbers for example. 'I took the leap into management, but my current role still isn't that far removed from programming'.

The 'once' here means 'one time', not 'when it has happened that'. cf. my 'twice removed' example above.

It's descriptively clear.