shū HSK4

uncle

shū
brother-in-law noun
husband's younger brother

His sister-in-law brought over a bowl of hot soup and handed it to him, saying, 'Here, drink this while it's still hot.'

uncle noun
father's younger brother

My father's generation includes an elder uncle, a younger uncle, and an aunt.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency

Character
Written text
1,422nd most common 79.1 per million
Movie subtitles
945th most common 115.7 per million appears in 18% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.25 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
28.9 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+53D4

Sources