叔 (shū)
uncle (father's younger brother); form of address for a man of father's generation
How 叔 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- ⺊ — divination
- Traditional
- 叔
- Simplified
- 叔 (unchanged)
Components
- ⺊ divination
- 一 one
- 小 small
- 又 right hand
Common words using 叔
- 叔叔 shūshu
- father's younger brother; uncle; Taiwan pr. [shu2 shu5]
- 大叔 dàshū
- eldest of father's younger brothers; uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father)
- 叔伯 shūbai
- (of cousins) descending from the same grandfather or great-grandfather
- 叔公 shūgōng
- great uncle; grandfather's younger brother; husband's father's younger brother
- 叔婆 shūpó
- aunt by marriage; husband's aunt; husband's father's younger brother's wife
- 叔母 shūmǔ
- aunt; wife of father's younger brother
- 叔父 shūfù
- father's younger brother; uncle
- 叔祖 shūzǔ
- grandfather's younger brother
- 小叔 xiǎoshū
- husband's younger brother; brother-in-law
- 怪叔叔 guàishūshu
- queer uncle, referring to a young to middle-aged male pedophile (Internet slang)
- 表叔 biǎoshū
- son of grandfather's sister; son of grandmother's brother or sister; father's younger male cousin
叔 in a sentence
王叔叔住在隔壁。
Wáng shūshu zhù zài gébì.
“Uncle Wang lives next door.”
How common is 叔?
叔 is the 1,420th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 94% of all running text.
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