Uncle in Chinese
uncle (father's younger brother) · HSK 3
叔叔
- 叔 uncle
Counted with 个: 一个叔叔
我叔叔是我爸爸的弟弟。 My uncle is my dad's younger brother.
Other ways to say uncle
How do you say uncle in Chinese?
Uncle in Chinese is 叔叔 (shū shu). You can also say 大爷 (dà yé), 舅舅 (jiù jiu), 大大 (dà dà).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.