叔(shū)

HSK 48 strokes

uncle

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Character information

Pinyin
shū
Meaning
uncle; father's younger brother; husband's younger brother; Taiwan pr. [shu2]
Strokes
8
HSK level
HSK 4
Traditional
Same

Origin & structure

Where 叔 comes from and how its parts fit together.

Ideograph⿰⿱上小又

The smaller 小 brother

A combination of parts whose meanings add up to the whole.

Made of

上shàng小xiǎo又yòu

Parts are arranged left to right.

How to write 叔 step by step

8 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.

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Words with 叔

Common words using 叔 — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.

shū叔shu叔
HSK 4

father's younger brother; paternal uncle

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bó伯shū叔

father's brother (uncle); husband's brother (brother-in-law)

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shū叔bó伯

(of cousins) descending from the same grandfather or great-grandfather

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shū叔gōng公

great uncle; grandfather's younger brother; husband's father's younger brot…

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bó伯zhòng仲shū叔jì季

(idiom) eldest, second, third and youngest of brothers; order of seniority among brothers

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shū叔běn本huá华

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German post-Kantian philosopher

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shū叔fù父

father's younger brother

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dà大shū叔

eldest of father's younger brothers

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伯公仲季本华父大

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