蘓
sū

thyme

苏 蘇 sū frequency
variant 蘓
phonetic proper nounnoun
Used in transliteration for foreign names like 苏丹 sū​dān (Sudan) or 苏里南 sū​lǐ​nán (Suriname)
Soviet proper noun
(bound form) short for 苏联 sū​lián (Soviet Union) or 苏维埃 sū​wéi'āi (Soviet)
Suzhou proper noun
(bound form) short for 苏州 sū​zhōu city
Jiangsu
(bound form) short for 江苏 jiāng​sū province
perilla
(bound form) Perilla, also known as Chinese basil or beefsteak plant; specifically the 紫苏 zǐ​sū species.
tassel
(bound form) A hanging tassel or fringe-like ornament, typically found on curtains, carriages, or clothing
to cut grass
(literary) To gather or cut grass for fuel or fodder
苏 蘇 sū
variants 甦,蘓
to revive verb
To wake up from unconsciousness; to recover or regain consciousness.
Su
A common Chinese surname.

Frequency
Character
Written text
9,125th most common 0.005 per million
Word
Movie subtitles
14.8 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
52.1 per million

Details
Strokes
19
Unicode
U+8613

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)