叔叔
Meaning
- father's younger brother; paternal uncle
- form of address used by children for a male one generation older
Example sentence
我叔叔开旅馆。
My uncle runs a hotel.
Characters in 叔叔
- 叔 shū father's younger brother; a young man of that age
叔 a father's younger brother, doubled. Reduplication makes it the everyday spoken word, as in 爸爸 and 哥哥; it also addresses any man of that age.