Chinese Character Wiki

尗

shū

younger of brothers

The smaller 小 of two brothers

Components
上 meaning component

上  Meaning component

shàng, shǎng

  

up

小 meaning component

小  Meaning component

xiǎo

  

small

Evolution

尗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
尗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

尗  

shū

younger of brothers; father's younger brother younger brother of a husband; archaic variant of 菽[shū]; archaic variant of 叔[shū]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s.tuk

syuwk

shū

pulse, beans


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+5C17

Shuowen

“尗，豆也。象尗豆生之形也。”


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