叟
Meanings
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- 1.old gentleman
- 2.old man
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Wiktionary
- 1.old man; old gentleman
- 2.Term of address for an elderly man: sir
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Etymology
Originally 叜. Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 宀 (“roof; house”) + 火 (“fire”) + 又 (“hand”) – hand holding a torch in the house – original form of 搜 (“to search”). Since the clerical script, the top components 宀 and 火 have merged into the unrelated 𦥔.
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
他們視喬叟為英詩之父。
They referred to Chaucer as the father of English poetry.
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Derived terms
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Related words
乔叟 Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集[Kǎn tè bó léi Gù shì Jí]老叟 old man野叟曝言 Yesou Puyan or Humble Words of a Rustic Elder, monumental Qing novel by Xia Jingqu 夏敬渠[Xià Jìng qú]童叟无欺 cheating neither old nor young (idiom); treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously北叟失马 lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best (idiom)杰弗里·乔叟 Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集[Kǎn tè bó léi Gù shì Jí]