叔

叔 U+53D4, 叔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53D4 ← 叓 [U+53D3] CJK Unified Ideographs 叕 → [U+53D5]

Translingual

Han character

叔 (radical 29, 又+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜火水 (YFE), four-corner 2794₀, composition ⿰尗又)

Derived characters

• 寂 督 𮀣

References

• KangXi: page 165, character 42
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3154
• Dae Jaweon: page 376, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 396, character 1
• Unihan data for U+53D4

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (尗) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
椒	*ʔsliw
茮	*ʔsliw
踧	*l'ɯːwɢ, *ʔslɯwɢ
蔋	*l'ɯːwɢ
惄	*nɯːwɢ
戚	*sʰlɯːwɢ
慼	*sʰlɯːwɢ
鏚	*sʰlɯːwɢ
慽	*sʰlɯːwɢ
磩	*sʰlɯːwɢ
寂	*zlɯːwɢ
嘁	*ʔsluːb
墄	*sʰlɯːɡ
摵	*srɯːɡ, *ʔslɯwɢ, *srɯwɢ
督	*ʔl'uːwɢ
錖	*ʔl'uːwɢ
裻	*ʔl'uːwɢ, *sluːwɢ
傶	*ʔslɯːwɢ
蹙	*ʔslɯwɢ
槭	*ʔslɯwɢ
縬	*ʔslɯwɢ, *ʔsrɯwɢ
顣	*ʔslɯwɢ
敊	*l̥ʰɯwɢ
琡	*ʔljɯwɢ, *l̥ʰjɯwɢ
俶	*l̥ʰjɯwɢ
埱	*l̥ʰjɯwɢ
淑	*ɦljɯwɢ
婌	*ɦljɯwɢ
尗	*hljɯwɢ
叔	*hljɯwɢ
掓	*hljɯwɢ
菽	*hljɯwɢ
鮛	*hljɯwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hljɯwɢ): semantic 又 (“hand”) + phonetic 尗 (OC *hljɯwɢ) – a hand husking peas.

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		叔
variant forms		𠁮 𡬟 𡬧 𡭫 𠦑 𠁮 𡬟 𡬧 𡭫 𠦑 𢆑

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shū, shú

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ, ㄕㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): suk¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): suk
• Min Bei (KCR): sṳ̆
• Min Dong (BUC): cé̤ṳk
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): chek / chiak / cheh / siok

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zêg⁴ / sog⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Pinyin: shū
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨ
    • Wade–Giles: shu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shu
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: shú
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˊ
    • Wade–Giles: shu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shwu
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: suk¹
    • Yale: sūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: suk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: sug¹
    • IPA ^(key): /sʊk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: suk
    • Hakka Romanization System: sug`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sug⁵
    • IPA: /suk̚²/
• Min Bei
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: sṳ̆
    • IPA ^(key): /sy²⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cé̤ṳk
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡søyʔ²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chek
    • Tâi-lô: tsik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zeg
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiak
    • Tâi-lô: tsiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cheh
    • Tâi-lô: tseh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zeq
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡seʔ⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siok
    • Tâi-lô: siok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siog
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ɕiɔk̚³²/

Note:

• chek/chiak/cheh - vernacular;
• siok - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: zêg⁴ / sog⁴
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsek / sok
  • IPA ^(key): /t͡sek̚²/, /sok̚²/

Note: sog4 - “third brother”.

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• Middle Chinese: /ɕɨuk̚/▼

Rime
Character	叔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	屋 (4)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	式竹切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕuwk̚/
Li Rong	/ɕiuk̚/
Wang Li	/ɕĭuk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯uk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-tiwk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljɯwɢ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	叔	叔
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shū	shū
Middle Chinese	‹ syuwk ›	‹ syuwk ›
Old Chinese	/*s-tiwk/	/*s-tiwk/
English	gather, harvest	3rd of 4 brothers
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	叔
Reading #	1/1
No.	11759
Phonetic component	尗
Rime group	覺
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	叔
Old Chinese	/*hljɯwɢ/

Definitions

叔

1. father's younger brother: uncle
2. husband's younger brother
3. third brother
4. Alternative form of 淑 (shū).
5. category
6. Alternative form of 菽 (shū).
7. A surname​.

Compounds

• 世叔
• 伯仲叔季 (bózhòngshūjì)
• 伯叔
• 伯夷叔齊／伯夷叔齐
• 保叔塔
• 叔世
• 叔于田
• 叔伯 (shūbai)
• 叔公 (shūgōng)
• 叔叔 (shūshu)
• 叔姪／叔侄
• 叔婆 (shūpó)

• 叔子
• 叔季 (shūjì)
• 叔孫／叔孙
• 叔母 (shūmǔ)
• 叔父 (shūfù)
• 叔祖
• 叔祖母
• 大叔 (dàshū)
• 大叔于田
• 太叔 (Tàishū)
• 女叔
• 家叔

• 小叔 (xiǎoshū)
• 山姆叔叔 (Shānmǔ shūshu)
• 師叔／师叔 (shīshū)
• 族叔
• 申叔
• 痴叔
• 皇叔 (huángshū)
• 老叔
• 蔡叔
• 表叔 (biǎoshū)
• 阿叔 (āshū)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 叔 – see 掓 (“to pick up”). (This character, 叔, is a variant form of 掓.)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C04273-001

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Japanese

Kanji

叔

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. uncle
2. youth

Readings

• Goon: すく (suku)
• Kan’on: しゅく (shuku, Jōyō)
• Kun: おじ (oji, 叔)

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Korean

Hanja

叔 • (suk) (hangeul 숙, revised suk, McCune–Reischauer suk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

叔 (thúc)

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