叔

Glyph origin
– using a wooden stake to dig the ground. Later borrowed for other uses.

Etymology 1
connects it to and reconstructs the 🇨🇬 as *ᵇs-tuk, the prefix possibly having a nominalizing function.

Alternatively, proposes a possible derivation from  and reconstructs the 🇨🇬 as *tikʷ (< *tiw-k?) ~ *tu-k.

Definitions

 * 1)  third brother (of four)
 * 2) paternal uncle
 * 3) brother-in-law
 * 4) uncle
 * 5)  shu,
 * 6) * 4th cent. BC, 《竹書紀年》 (), s.v. "周宣王" :
 * "zh"

- 五年... 秋八月，方叔帥師伐荊蠻


 * 1)  dad; father
 * 1)  dad; father

Etymology 2
Cognate with.

Definitions

 * 1)  to gather; to harvest

Definitions

 * 1)  to decline; to wane
 * 2)  declining; waning; last; end

Kanji

 * 1) uncle
 * 2) youth

Etymology
From.