素
sù HSK6

raw silk, white, plain

素 sù
element noun
(bound form) essential part; element; constituent; basic nature
vegetarian nounadjective
vegetarian food; non-meat diet (traditionally excluding pungent vegetables like onions or garlic)

我们是吃素的。

wǒ​men shì chī sù de.

We're vegetarians.

usually adjectiveverb
usually; habitually; always; according to one's long-standing practice
plain noun
plain; unadorned; simple in color or style
white
(bound form) white; the color of undyed silk
in vain
(literary) for nothing; in vain; for no purpose
sincere
(literary) sincere; true; honest
surname
a Chinese surname
raw silk
(literary) white raw silk; (by extension) books or letters written on silk

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Antonym

Frequency
Character
Written text
661st most common 305.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,139th most common 79.3 per million appears in 30% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
19.0 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
69.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+7D20

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