叔叔 shūshu▶ tío

Stroke order

叔叔 is written in 16 strokes across 2 characters.

• 叔 — 8 strokes
• 叔 — 8 strokes

Senses

1. father's younger brother; paternal uncle
2. form of address used by children for a male one generation older

Example sentences

• 我叔叔是一名医生。Wǒ shūshu shì yì míng yīshēng.My uncle is a doctor.
• 叔叔明天来我家。Shūshu míngtiān lái wǒ jiā.Uncle is coming to my home tomorrow.

Related words

• 舒服cómodo
• 树árbol

叔叔 is pronounced shūshu and means “tío”. You will meet it in HSK 3, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 叔叔 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.