(shū) - uncle (father's younger brother) in Mandarin
shūTraditional: 叔
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Translation
uncle (father's younger brother)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: 尗 (shū) carries the sound and 又 (a hand) the action, the whole used for a father's younger brother.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 尗 (shū, phonetic) + 又 (hand)
Stroke order
叔
Examples
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This is my uncle.
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Uncle is tall.
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He calls him Uncle Wang.
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I have three uncles.
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My uncle is younger than my father.
叔 (shū) means uncle (father's younger brother), reduplicated as 叔叔 (shūshu) in everyday address.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 叔.
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