叔 — uncle; father's younger brother

uncle; father's younger brother; husband's younger brother

Pinyin: shū
Strokes: 8
HSK level: HSK 3
Handwriting: recognition only

How to write 叔: 8 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

叔 — 8 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 叔 in the HSK syllabus: 1

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

叔叔shūshufather's younger brother; paternal uncleHSK 3

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.