Chinese Word of the Day

叔叔
shū shū

uncle

Definitions

Chinese > English
叔叔	叔shu, , shǔshú
1. n. paternal uncle (father's younger brother)
2. n. (often, childish) uncle (term of address for a man around one's father's age or slightly younger)
English > Chinese
uncle
1. 泛指高自己一輩的男性親人，或父母的男性好友，又或對普通年長男性的親暱稱謂
2. 伯父
3. 叔父
4. 姑父
5. 姨丈
6. 舅父
7. 老伯伯
8. 当铺
9. 大爷
Components
叔	叔
1. paternal uncle (father's younger brother)
2. brother-in-law (husband's younger brother)
3. uncle (a term of address for a man around one's father's age or slightly younger)
4. (historical) shu, (ngd, a high rank in the early Zhou aristocracy)
(ux, zh, 三監是管叔鮮、蔡叔度和霍叔處。, The Three Guards were Guanshu Xian, Caishu Du, and Huoshu Chu.)
5. (obsolete) to gather; to harvest
叔	叔
1. paternal uncle (father's younger brother)
2. brother-in-law (husband's younger brother)
3. uncle (a term of address for a man around one's father's age or slightly younger)
4. (historical) shu, (ngd, a high rank in the early Zhou aristocracy)
(ux, zh, 三監是管叔鮮、蔡叔度和霍叔處。, The Three Guards were Guanshu Xian, Caishu Du, and Huoshu Chu.)
5. (obsolete) to gather; to harvest
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