HSK 3 · Family

叔叔 shūshu “father’s younger brother” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 叔叔 means

  1. father’s younger brother
  2. uncle
  3. paternal uncle
  4. form of address used by children for a male one generation older

How to say 叔叔

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale叔shū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own叔shuneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

叔叔 in a sentence

  1. 我的叔叔有三个孩子。

    Wǒ de shūshu yǒu sān ge háizi.

    My uncle has three children.

    Sentence #396670 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我父母去机场送我叔叔了。

    Wǒ fùmǔ qù jīchǎng sòng wǒ shūshu le.

    My parents have gone to the airport to see my uncle off.

    Sentence #336651 from Tatoeba

  3. 我叔叔在巴黎住了十年。

    Wǒ shūshu zài Bālí zhù le shí nián.

    My uncle has lived in Paris for ten years.

    Sentence #10040454 from Tatoeba

How 叔叔 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 叔 (shū) with each of its parts in a different colour
叔shūuncle
  • 上above · shǎng
  • 小small · xiǎo
  • 又again · yòu
The character 叔 (shū) with each of its parts in a different colour
叔shūunclelight in 叔叔
  • 上above · shǎng
  • 小small · xiǎo
  • 又again · yòu

How to write 叔叔

叔 8 strokes

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叔叔 (shūshu) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 叔叔 (shūshu). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 叔叔

More words: People, Body & Health

别人biéren · other people客人kèrén · guest邻居línjū · neighbour奶奶nǎinai · grandma同事tóngshì · colleague爷爷yéye · father’s father自己zìjǐ · oneself鼻子bízi · nose

FAQs

叔叔 (shūshu) means “father’s younger brother” or “uncle”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it shūshu: shū with a 1st tone, then shu with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 叔叔 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shushu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 叔叔 from the suggestions. Typing shushu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
叔叔 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.