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叔叔

shū shu

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

叔叔 (shū shu) means "father's younger brother". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 叔叔 means

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

The characters in 叔叔

• 叔shūuncle; father's younger brother; husband's younger brother
• 叔shūuncle; father's younger brother; husband's younger brother

Example sentences

• 我叔叔开旅馆。
  My uncle runs a hotel.
• 让你叔叔想一想。
  Let your uncle think about it.
• 我的叔叔去过芬兰。
  Wǒ de shūshu qù guo Fēnlán.
  My uncle has been to Finland.
• 我想跟你叔叔谈谈。
  I want to talk with your uncle.
• 我叔叔偶尔来看我。
  My uncle comes to see me from time to time.
• 我叔叔住在公寓里。
  My uncle lives in an apartment.

Words containing 叔叔

• 怪叔叔guài shū shuqueer uncle, referring to a young to middle-aged male pedophile (Internet slang)
• 麦当劳叔叔Mài dāng láo Shū shuRonald McDonald
• 帽子叔叔mào zi shū shu(slang) police officer

Where 叔叔 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Extended Family (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shū shu correctly.
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