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叟
sǒu
1. old gentleman
2. old man
Uncommon • Top 33% ✏️ 10 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

叟
sǒu
old man; elder
9 丶

Compound Words (6)

乔叟
Qiáosǒu
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales [[坎特伯雷故事集<KǎntèbóléiGùshìJí>]]
老叟
lǎosǒu
old man
北叟失马
běisǒushīmǎ
lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best (idiom)
童叟无欺
tóngsǒuwúqī
cheating neither old nor young (idiom); treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously
野叟曝言
YěsǒuPùyán
Yesou Puyan or Humble Words of a Rustic Elder, monumental Qing novel by Xia Jingqu [[夏敬渠<XiàJìngqú>]]
杰弗里・乔叟
Jiéfúlǐ·Qiáosǒu
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales [[坎特伯雷故事集<KǎntèbóléiGùshìJí>]]

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Word Frequency Rank
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