叔
uncle; father's younger brother; husband's younger brother; Taiwan pr. [shu2]
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,942 U+53D4
How 叔 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
The smaller 小 brother
How to remember it
uncle · Heisig RSH #653
上 above + 小 small + right hand
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 叔 as their sound component
These characters all use 叔 (shū) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 叔 sound component | shū | uncle; father's younger brother |
| 椒 | jiāo | pepper, spice |
| 督 | dū | to supervise, to oversee, to direct |
| 寂 | jì | still, silent, quiet, desolate |
| 淑 | shū | good, pure, virtuous; charming |
| 菽 | shū | legumes |
Words containing 叔
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小叔子 | xiǎo shū zi | (coll.) husband's younger brother |
| 山姆大叔 | Shān mǔ Dà shū | Uncle Sam |
| 王叔文 | Wáng Shū wén | Wang Shuwen (735–806), Tang dynasty scholar, politician and Go player, leader of the faile… |
| 叔本华 | Shū běn huá | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German post-Kantian philosopher |
| 李叔同 | Lǐ Shū tóng | Liu Shutong (1880-1942), painter, Buddhist monk and distinguished figure in New Culture Mo… |
| 阿布叔醇 | ā bù shū chún | albuterol, chemical used in treating asthma |
| 伯叔祖母 | bó shū zǔ mǔ | father's father's brother's wife; great aunt |
| 叔子 | shū zi | brother-in-law; husband's younger brother |
| 大叔 | dà shū | eldest of father's younger brothers; uncle (term used to address a man about the age of on… |
| 小叔 | xiǎo shū | husband's younger brother; brother-in-law |
| 家叔 | jiā shū | (polite) my uncle (father's younger brother) |
| 叔公 | shū gōng | great uncle; grandfather's younger brother; husband's father's younger brother |
| 伯叔祖父 | bó shū zǔ fù | father's father's brother; great uncle |
| 叔祖母 | shū zǔ mǔ | wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother |
| 麦当劳叔叔 | Mài dāng láo Shū shu | Ronald McDonald |
| 鸟叔 | Niǎo shū | nickname of Korean singer PSY |
| 表叔 | biǎo shū | son of grandfather's sister; son of grandmother's brother or sister; father's younger male… |
| 叔母 | shū mǔ | aunt; wife of father's younger brother |
| 伯叔 | bó shū | father's brother (uncle); husband's brother (brother-in-law) |
| 叔伯 | shū bai | (of cousins) descending from the same grandfather or great-grandfather |