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Mythic Mandarin

苏 (sū): meaning and stroke order

苏 (sū) means Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil), place name, to revive.

苏

Simplified
苏
Traditional
蘇, 囌, 甦, 蘓
Pinyin
sū

Stroke order of 苏

苏

  • sū used in 嚕囌|噜苏[lu1 su1]
  • sū variant of 蘇|苏[su1]; to revive
  • Sū surname Su; abbr. for Soviet Union 蘇維埃|苏维埃[Su1 wei2 ai1] or 蘇聯|苏联[Su1 lian2]
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 囌

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 苏

  1. sū Traditional 蘇
    • Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil)
    • place name
    • to revive
    • used as phonetic in transliteration
  2. sū Traditional 囌
    • used in 嚕囌|噜苏[lu1 su1]
  3. sū Traditional 甦
    • variant of 蘇|苏[su1]
    • to revive
  4. Sū Traditional 蘇
    • surname Su
    • abbr. for Soviet Union 蘇維埃|苏维埃[Su1 wei2 ai1] or 蘇聯|苏联[Su1 lian2]
    • abbr. for Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏[Jiang1 su1]
    • abbr. for Suzhou 蘇州|苏州[Su1 zhou1]
  5. sū Traditional 蘓
    • old variant of 蘇|苏[su1]

Radical and structure

苏
Radical 艸 (Kangxi radical 140) · 8 strokes · 艹 on top, 办 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).