宿
xiùsùSùxiǔ HSK5

lodge, sleep overnight

宿 xiù frequency
constellation place name

二十八宿是中国古代划分星空的坐标。

èr​shí​bā xiù shì Zhōng​guó gǔ​dài huà​fēn xīng​kōng de zuò​biāo.

The Twenty-Eight Mansions are the coordinate system used to divide the stars in ancient China.

宿 sù
former noun
old, previous, or long-standing

他晚年终于实现了积压多年的宿志。

tā wǎn​nián zhōng​yú shí​xiàn le jī​yā duō nián de sù zhì.

In his later years, he finally fulfilled the ambition he had held for a long time.

lodge verb
to stay overnight or provide lodging

昨晚他在朋友家宿了一夜。

zuó​wǎn tā zài péng​you jiā sù le yī yè.

He stayed overnight at a friend's house last night.

宿 Sù
Su proper name
surname Su

宿先生是我的老师。

Sù xiān​sheng shì wǒ de lǎo​shī.

Mr. Su is my teacher.

宿 xiǔ
night measure word
night; classifier for counting the number of nights

他在朋友家住了一宿。

tā zài péng​you jiā zhù le yī xiǔ.

He stayed at his friend's place for a night.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,752nd most common 50.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,772nd most common 28.5 per million appears in 13% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
11.5 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
11.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+5BBF

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)