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Mythic Mandarin

宿 (sù): meaning and stroke order

宿 (sù) means lodge for the night, old, former, old variant of 宿, surname Su, night.

宿

Simplified
宿
Traditional
宿, 㝛
Pinyin
sù · xiǔ · xiù

Stroke order of 宿

宿

  • sù old variant of 宿[su4]
  • Sù surname Su
  • sù lodge for the night; old
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 㝛

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 宿

  1. sù
    • lodge for the night
    • old
    • former
  2. sù Traditional 㝛
    • old variant of 宿[su4]
  3. Sù
    • surname Su
  4. xiǔ
    • night
    • classifier for nights
  5. xiù
    • constellation

Radical and structure

宿
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 11 strokes · 宀 on top, 佰 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.

Words with 宿

  • 借宿 jiè sù to stay with sb; to ask for lodging
  • 民宿 mín sù (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 民宿 "minshuku") property rented via Airbnb or similar platform; guesthouse; bed-and-breakfast; homestay; pension

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).