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叔: uncle, youth

JLPT N18 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

又 carries the meaning · 尗 is drawn in

8 strokes
  • Bronze · Zhou
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

シュクshuku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 伯叔はくしゅくbrothers; one's father's brothers

Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.

  • 叔父おじuncle
  • 叔母おばaunt

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Once more, with intent! This radical represents the tireless action of the right hand and the core concept of repetition.”
More in the 又 again story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
尗

Also built on 尗

又

Also built on again (又)

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叔 gives its sound to

The family reading is シュク (shuku). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read シュク

6 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · shū

Same form: 叔 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
叔 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
叔 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin shū most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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