Male and Person

Male

Male noun - A person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies.

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Person and male are semantically related in man topic. In some cases you can use "Person" instead a noun "Male".

Person noun - A member of the human race.

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Male and person are semantically related in man topic. Sometimes you can use "Male" instead a noun "Person".

known	known male	known person
old	old male	old person
rich	rich male	rich person
normal	normal male	normal person
Other adjectives: average, friendly, single, likely, black, young, white, new, unknown, last, different, older, strongest.

Also there's a slight twist to Type 3, in which said person is used to address said male's in laws instead of actual older sibling.

Source: Onee-sama
In "Parallel Universe", Cat is pretty excited to meet his alternate dimension counterpart as he thinks it will be a female cat person - it turns out to be a male dog person.

Source: Other Me Annoys Me
For instance, a non-binary (person with a gender neither male nor female) who presents as female is female under this scale, while if they presented as male instead, they'd be considered male.

Source: Just For Fun / Kinsey Scale of Tropes

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