叔 — Chinese character
叔
shū
uncle; father's younger brother
- Pinyin
- shū
- Radical
- 29 ⼜ (Again)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 上 小 又
- Formation
- ideographic — The smaller 小 brother
- Japanese
- 叔 as a kanji
Common words with 叔
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 叔叔 | shū shu | father's younger brother; paternal uncle; form of address used by children for a male one generation older |
| 大叔 | dà shū | eldest of father's younger brothers; uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father) |
| 叔父 | shū fù | father's younger brother; uncle |
| 叔母 | shū mǔ | aunt; wife of father's younger brother |
| 叔伯 | shū bai | (of cousins) descending from the same grandfather or great-grandfather |
| 小叔子 | xiǎo shū zi | (coll.) husband's younger brother |
| 表叔 | biǎo shū | son of grandfather's sister; son of grandmother's brother or sister |
| 叔祖 | shū zǔ | grandfather's younger brother |
| 叔公 | shū gōng | great uncle; grandfather's younger brother |
| 小叔 | xiǎo shū | husband's younger brother; brother-in-law |
| 伯叔 | bó shū | father's brother (uncle); husband's brother (brother-in-law) |
| 叔子 | shū zi | brother-in-law; husband's younger brother |
English words written with 叔
叔 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 16 · Mencius 11 · Zhuangzi 19
- Analects 5.22
- Analects 7.14
- Analects 14.9
- Analects 14.14
- Analects 14.19
- Analects 14.20
- Analects 16.12
- Analects 18.8
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.