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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
shū - uncle
- father's younger brother
- husband's younger brother
- Taiwan pr. [shu2]

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 18,559 4,028 1,942

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

⿰⿱

Radical:

Type:

Ideographic

Hint:

The smaller 小 brother

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
叔叔 3 4 1,175 5,850 3,050
大叔 - - 5,255 6,440 2,332
- - 18,559 4,028 1,942
叔父 - - 20,414 33,750 65,292
表叔 - - 57,409 52,232 29,983
叔母 - - 60,997 - 114,671
叔伯 - - 61,297 65,789 50,068
叔公 - - 61,435 60,294 39,773
叔祖母 - - 80,625 - -