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叔

Uncle
Stroke count: 8

Readings

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Meanings

  1. uncleRtK
  2. youth

Popular Usage

叔父さん叔母さん

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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above · small (小) · little (小) · crotch

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 775

Compound words

彼は松山に着くとすぐに叔父に電話をした。
He called up his uncle on reaching Matsuyama.tatoeba
彼は助言を叔父にたよることができる。
He can look to his uncle for advice.tatoeba
彼は叔母の家に滞在した。
He stayed at his aunt's house.tatoeba
彼は叔父を訪れるつもりだ。
He will visit his uncle.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

叔父さんは、岬の一軒家に独りぼっちで住んでいた。
おじさんは、みさきのいっけんやにひとりぼっちですんでいた。Uncle lived alone in a single house on a cape.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

8 strokes

Uncle (younger brother of a parent). 尗 (beans) + 又 (hand) — a hand gathering beans; the name for younger brothers. 叔父 — uncle.

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