叔

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 又 (“hand”) + phonetic 尗 – a hand husking peas.

Han character

叔 (radical 29 又+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜火水 (YFE), four-corner 2794₀)

1. father's younger brother

Synonyms

• 尗

Antonyms

• 伯

Derived characters

• 寂 督

References

• KangXi: page 165, character 42
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3154
• Dae Jaweon: page 376, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 396, character 1
• Unihan data for U+53D4

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Cantonese

Hanzi

叔 (Yale suk1)

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Japanese

Kanji

叔 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: しゅく (shuku)
• Kun: おじ (oji)

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Korean

Hanja

叔 (hangeul 숙, revised suk, McCune-Reischauer suk)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

叔 (pinyin jià (jia4), shū (shu1), xiá (xia2), Wade-Giles chia⁴, shu¹, hsia²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

叔 (thúc)