I found it neat to learn that Chinese has 5 separate words for what we in English call Uncle. 1. (father’s older brother) 伯父 [bófù] (位, wèi) 2. (father’s youn

I found it neat to learn that Chinese has 5 separate words for what we in English call Uncle. 1. (father’s older brother) 伯父 [bófù] (位, wèi) 2. (father’s younger brother) 叔父 [shūfù] (位, wèi) 3. (father’s sister’s husband) 姑父 [gūfu] (位, wèi) 4. (mother’s brother) 舅父 [jiùfù] (位, wèi) 5. (mother’s sister’s husband) 姨父 [yífu] (位, wèi)