叔

Stroke order

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

• 俶, 埱, 婌, 掓, 椒, 淑, 琡, 諔(𰵴), 踧, 䱙(𩾈), 寂, 菽, 惄, 督, 裻, 錖, 㾥
• 𭂑, 𠴫, 𡹧, 𢛼, 𣥹, 𬆷, 𭽭, 𮀣, 𥚔, 𥟧, 𥺱, 𫃬, 𨧷, 𨺏, 𩜂, 𧡕, 𢉌, 𢃝, 𣈉, 𤟏, 𤬂, 𥁽, 𥓍, 𥺤, 𮛣, 𧇝
• 𰐱, 𰠍, 𰩒, 𰆜

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

Historical forms of the character 叔
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hljɯwɢ) : phonetic 尗 (OC *hljɯwɢ, “wooden stake”) + semantic 又 (“hand”) – using a wooden stake to dig the ground. Later borrowed for other uses.

Sagart (1999) connects it to 督 (OC *ᵃtuk, “middle”) and reconstructs the Old Chinese as *ᵇs-tuk, the prefix possibly having a nominalizing function.

Alternatively, Starostin proposes a possible derivation from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t(h)u (~ -iw) (“nephew”) and reconstructs the Old Chinese as *tikʷ (< *tiw-k?) ~ *tu-k.

叔

1. ^† third brother (of four)
2. paternal uncle (father's younger brother)
3. brother-in-law (husband's younger brother)
4. uncle (a term of address for a man around one's father's age or slightly younger)
5. (historical) shu, a high rank in the early Zhou aristocracy
   • 4th cent. BC, 《竹書紀年》 (Bamboo Annals), s.v. "周宣王" (Xuan King):

     五年... 秋八月，方叔帥師伐荊蠻

     Year 5 ... Autumn, Month 8: Fangshu ("Uncle" Fang) led a force to slaughter the Jingman.

   三監是管叔鮮、蔡叔度和霍叔處。

   The Three Guards were Guanshu Xian, Caishu Du, and Huoshu Chu.

6. (Mainland China Hokkien, euphemistic) dad; father
7. a surname

• → English: Ah Chek
• → Malay: encik
• → Indonesian: encik
• → Tagalog: Intsik
• → Cebuano: Insik
• → Thai: เจ๊ก (jék)
• → Khmer: ចិក (cək)
• → Vietnamese: Chệch

Cognate with 收 (OC *qʰljɯw, “to gather; to harvest”) (Schuessler, 2007).

叔

1. (obsolete) to gather; to harvest

   • 七月食瓜，八月斷壺，九月叔苴，采荼薪樗。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     七月食瓜，八月断壶，九月叔苴，采荼薪樗。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Qīyuè shí guā, bāyuè duàn hú, jiǔyuè shū jū, cǎi tú xīn chū.

     In the seventh month, they eat the melons;
     In the eighth, they cut down the bottle-gourds;
     In the ninth, they gather the hemp-seed;
     They gather the sowthistle and make firewood of the Fetid tree.

叔

1. ^† Alternative form of 淑 (shū, “good”)

叔

1. ^† Alternative form of 菽 (shū, “legume”)

叔

1. ^† to decline; to wane
2. ^† declining; waning; last; end

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

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. uncle
2. youth

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

From Middle Chinese 叔 (MC syuwk). Recorded as Middle Korean 슉〮 (syúk) (Yale: syuk) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

叔

Wikisource

叔 (eumhun 아저씨 숙 (ajeossi suk))

1. Hanja form^? of 숙 (“uncle”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

叔: Hán Nôm readings: thúc

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