叔
Meanings
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- 1.uncle
- 2.father's younger brother
- 3.husband's younger brother
- 4.Taiwan pr. [shú]
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Wiktionary
- 1.third brother (of four)
- 2.paternal uncle (father's younger brother)
- 3.brother-in-law (husband's younger brother)
- 4.uncle (a term of address for a man around one's father's age or slightly younger)
- 5.shu, a high rank in the early Zhou aristocracy
- 6.dad; father
- 7.a surname
- 8.to gather; to harvest
- 9.to decline; to wane
- 10.declining; waning; last; end
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *hljɯwɢ): phonetic 尗 (OC *hljɯwɢ, “wooden stake”) + semantic 又 (“hand”) – using a wooden stake to dig the ground. Later phonetically borrowed to mean "paternal uncle". The whole character is partly related to 建 since it represents a hand planting a wooden stake in the ground. Sagart (1999) connects it to 督 (OC *ᵃtuk, “middle”) and reconstructs the Old Chinese as *ᵇs-tuk, the prefix possibly having a nominalizing function. Alternatively, Starostin proposes a possible derivation from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t(h)u (~ -iw) (“nephew”) and reconstructs the Old Chinese as *tikʷ (< *tiw-k?) ~ *tu-k.
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