Dictionary › 叟
叟
sǒu
What 叟 means
- old gentleman
- old man
Example sentences
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他们视乔叟为英诗之父。Tāmen shì Qiáosǒu wèi yīng shī zhī fù.They referred to Chaucer as the father of English poetry.
Words containing 叟
- 乔叟Qiáo sǒuGeoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集
- 老叟lǎo sǒuold man
- 北叟失马běi sǒu shī mǎlit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best (idiom)…
- 童叟无欺tóng sǒu wú qīcheating neither old nor young (idiom); treating youngsters and old folk equally…
- 野叟曝言Yě sǒu Pù yánYesou Puyan or Humble Words of a Rustic Elder, monumental Qing novel by Xia Jingqu 夏敬渠
- 杰弗里·乔叟Jié fú lǐ · Qiáo sǒuGeoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集
Characters that look like 叟
Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.
- 变biànto change; to become different; to transform
- 觉juéto feel; to find that; thinking
- 览lǎnto look at; to view; to read
- 贾gǔmerchant; to buy
- 瓮wèngpottery container for water, wine etc
- 垩èto whitewash; to plaster
Sounds the same
Read sǒu, tone for tone, but written differently.
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