Chinese symbol for “uncle”
叔
shū
uncle; father's younger brother; husband's younger brother; Taiwan pr. [shu2]
The closest CC-CEDICT match for uncle is 叔 (shū), defined as: uncle; father's younger brother; husband's younger brother; Taiwan pr. [shu2].
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “uncle”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 老伯 | lǎo bó | uncle (polite form of address for older male) |
| 老大爷 (老大爺) | lǎo dà yé | uncle; grandpa |
| 大大 | dà dà | greatly; enormously |
| 世伯 | shì bó | uncle (affectionate name for a friend older than one's father); old friend |
| 大爷 (大爺) | dà ye | (coll.) father's older brother; uncle |
Related words
Other words that share a character 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “uncle”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.