The Chinese word for uncle is
叔叔
shū shūChinese Definition
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 | |
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 | |
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 |
Translations for 叔 and their definitions
姨父 | |
1. n. (chiefly Northern Chinese) maternal uncle (husband of mother's sister) |
姑父 | |
1. n. paternal uncle (husband of father's sister) |
姨丈 | |
1. n. maternal uncle (husband of mother's sister) |
伯父 | |
1. n. (formal) paternal uncle (father's elder brother) | |
2. n. (formal) uncle (a term of respect for someone who is slightly older than one's father) | |
3. n. (Cantonese) old man, especially one who is creepy |
姑丈 | |
1. n. uncle (husband of one's father's sister) | |
2. n. (Gan, Jiangxi Hakka) son-in-law |
姨夫 | |
1. n. maternal uncle (husband of mother's sister) | |
2. n. brother-in-law (husband of wife's sister) | |
3. n. (affectionate) a form of address between two clients of the same prostitute |
伯伯 | |
1. n. (informal, affectionate) paternal uncle (father's elder brother) | |
2. n. (informal, affectionate) uncle (a term of respect for someone who is older than one's father) | |
3. n. (dialectal) father | |
4. n. (dialectal) paternal aunt (father's sister, or wife of father's elder brother) | |
5. n. (Suzhou Wu) brother-in-law (husband's elder brother) |
舅父 | |
1. n. maternal uncle (mother's brother) |
叔父 | |
1. n. (formal) paternal uncle (father's younger brother) | |
2. n. (Cantonese) elder in a gang; someone who is of the same generation as the gang leader |
舅舅 | |
1. n. (colloquial) maternal uncle (mother's brother) |
叔叔 | |
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) |
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