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HSK 3
叔
shū
1.
uncle
2.
father's younger brother
3.
husband's younger brother
4.
Taiwan pr. <shú>
Very Common • Top 4%
✏️ 8 strokes
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (20)
伯叔
bóshū
father's brother (uncle)
叔伯
shūbai
(of cousins) descending from the same grandfather or great-grandfather
叔公
shūgōng
great uncle
叔叔
shūshu
father's younger brother
叔婆
shūpó
aunt by marriage
叔子
shūzi
brother-in-law
叔岳
shūyuè
wife's uncle
叔母
shūmǔ
aunt
叔父
shūfù
father's younger brother
叔祖
shūzǔ
grandfather's younger brother
大叔
dàshū
eldest of father's younger brothers
家叔
jiāshū
(polite) my uncle (father's younger brother)
小叔
xiǎoshū
husband's younger brother
表叔
biǎoshū
son of grandfather's sister
叔丈人
shūzhàngrén
wife's uncle
叔丈母
shūzhàngmǔ
wife's aunt
叔本华
Shūběnhuá
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German post-Kantian philosopher
叔祖母
shūzǔmǔ
wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother
怪叔叔
guàishūshu
queer uncle, referring to a young to middle-aged male pedophile (Internet slang)
李叔同
LǐShūtóng
Liu Shutong (1880-1942), painter, Buddhist monk and distinguished figure in New Culture Movement [[新文化運動|新文化运动<XīnWénhuàYùndòng>]] after the Xinhai Revolution [[辛亥革命<XīnhàiGémìng>]] of 1911
Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 3
- Character Frequency Rank
- 1,421
- Word Frequency Rank
- 3,198 of 84,292