Chinese Word: 叟 - Talking Chinese English Dictionary

叟

Pinyin: sǒu

English Definition: old gentleman; old man

Chinese Definition:
①年老的男人：老叟。童叟无欺。

Antonyms: 童

Total strokes: 9; Radical: 又

Ideographic:A hand 又 holding up a candle, representing failing vision

Character Formation:

⿱ Above to below
- ⿻ Overlaid
  - 臼 [ jiù ] mortar; bone joint socket
  - 丨 [ shù ] number one; line
- 又 [ yòu ] and, also, again, in addition

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童叟无欺	tóng sǒu wú qī	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.
老叟	lǎo sǒu	old man
乔叟	qiáo sǒu	Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集
野叟曝言	yě sǒu pù yán	Yesou Puyan or Humble Words of a Rustic Elder, monumental Qing novel by Xia Jingqu 夏敬渠
杰弗里·乔叟	jié fú lǐ · qiáo sǒu	Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集

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