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

uncle

叔 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Analects 16 · Mencius 11 · Zhuangzi 19

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.

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