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Hanzi Character Search: 叟

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叟
old man; elder
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 8 Total Strokes 10
Mandarin reading soǔ Cantonese reading sau2
Japanese on reading sou shuu Japanese kun reading okina
Korean reading swu Vietnamese reading
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CEDICT Entries:

⇒ b7乔   [ jié soǔ ]    Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集[Kan3 te4 bo2 lei2 Gu4 shi4 Ji2]
⇒    [ beǐ soǔ shī ]    lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best (idiom), fig. a blessing in disguise, it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
⇒    [ soǔ ]    Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集[Kan3 te4 bo2 lei2 Gu4 shi4 Ji2]
⇒    [ tóng soǔ ]    cheating neither old nor young (idiom); treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously, Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike.

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