叔
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uncle; father's younger brother; husband's younger brother; Taiwan pr. [shu2]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 又 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 叔
- Common rank
- #1,942
- Unicode
- U+53D4
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Formation & memory
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Words with 叔
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小叔子 | (coll.) husband's younger brother | |
| 山姆大叔 | Uncle Sam | |
| 王叔文 | Wang Shuwen (735–806), Tang dynasty scholar, politician and Go player, leader of the faile… | |
| 叔本华 | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German post-Kantian philosopher | |
| 李叔同 | Liu Shutong (1880-1942), painter, Buddhist monk and distinguished figure in New Culture Mo… | |
| 阿布叔醇 | albuterol, chemical used in treating asthma | |
| 伯叔祖母 | father's father's brother's wife; great aunt | |
| 叔子 | brother-in-law; husband's younger brother | |
| 大叔 | eldest of father's younger brothers; uncle (term used to address a man about the age of on… | |
| 小叔 | husband's younger brother; brother-in-law | |
| 家叔 | (polite) my uncle (father's younger brother) | |
| 叔公 | great uncle; grandfather's younger brother; husband's father's younger brother | |
| 伯叔祖父 | father's father's brother; great uncle | |
| 叔祖母 | wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother | |
| 麦当劳叔叔 | Ronald McDonald | |
| 鸟叔 | nickname of Korean singer PSY | |
| 表叔 | son of grandfather's sister; son of grandmother's brother or sister; father's younger male… | |
| 叔母 | aunt; wife of father's younger brother | |
| 伯叔 | father's brother (uncle); husband's brother (brother-in-law) | |
| 叔伯 | (of cousins) descending from the same grandfather or great-grandfather |
Sound family
These characters use 叔 as their sound component — compare how they read.