surname Su; abbr. for Jiangsu province jiāng sū

HSK 6 #590

Character data

HSK 6
Frequency 590th character
Radical ⾋ (140.4)
Strokes 7
Index # 677
TRADITIONAL

Definitions

苏 sū
  1. 1. surname Su
  2. 2. abbr. for Jiangsu province jiāng sū
  3. 3. abbr. for Suzhou city sū zhōu
  4. 4. to revive
  5. 5. abbr. for Soviet Union sū wéi āi or sū lián
  6. 6. place name
  7. 7. Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil)
  8. 8. used as phonetic in transliteration
  9. 9. see luō sū
  10. 10. variant of
  11. 11. old variant of

Stroke order

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Words containing 苏

Word Meaning
American-Soviet (tension, rapprochement etc)
the Suez canal
Suez Canal
Soviet-occupied area (of Eastern Europe etc)
Sucre, constitutional capital of Bolivia
Soviet Communist Party
Suriname, NE of South America (Tw)
Sudetenland
snowdrop bush (Styrax officinalis); gum storax, used in TCM
Suharto, former president of Indonesia
1903 Qing case against Su Bao newspaper
Sumgayit, city in Azerbaijan
Sotheby's auction house
Suning Appliance (PRC electrical retailer)
Sonid Right Banner, Inner Mongolia
Sonid Left Banner, Inner Mongolia
Suzhou region in Jiangsu
Suzhou or Soochow University (Suzhou, PRC since 1986)
Suzhou prefecture level city in Jiangsu
Suzhou Creek (river in Shanghai)
Suzhou numerals, i.e. the ten numerals 〡,〢,〣,〤,〥,〦,〧,〨,〩,shí nowadays mainly used in traditional trades such as Chinese medicine
Suzhou dialect, one of the main Wu dialects wú yǔ
Lake Superior, one of the Great Lakes wǔ dà hú
soda drink (loanword)