苏
Sūsū HSK6

revive

苏 (蘇) Sū frequency
Jiangsu abbreviation
abbreviation for Jiangsu province

苏南地区的工业非常发达。

Sū nán dì​qū de gōng​yè fēi​cháng fā​dá.

Industry in southern Jiangsu is very developed.

Soviet abbreviation
abbreviation for the Soviet Union or Soviet

中苏边境贸易近年来发展迅速。

Zhōng Sū biān​jìng mào​yì jìn​nián lái fā​zhǎn xùn​sù.

Sino-Soviet border trade has developed rapidly in recent years.

Su proper name
Chinese surname

刚才有一位姓苏的女士打电话说要找你。

gāng​cái yǒu yī wèi xìng Sū de nǚ​shì dǎ diàn​huà shuō yào zhǎo nǐ.

A lady surnamed Su called just now asking for you.

Suzhou abbreviation
abbreviation for Suzhou city

上有天堂，下有苏杭。

shàng yǒu tiān​táng, xià yǒu Sū Háng.

In heaven there is paradise, and on earth there are Suzhou and Hangzhou.

苏 (囌) sū
wordy verb
used in the compound 噜苏 lū​sū, meaning loquacious or verbose

他说话太噜苏了。

tā shuō​huà tài lū sū le.

He is too long-winded.

苏 (蘇) sū
Suzhou abbreviation
short for Suzhou city or Jiangsu province; a place name

苏沪两地之间的交通往来现在变得非常便捷。

sū Hù liǎng dì zhī​jiān de jiāo​tōng wǎng​lái xiàn​zài biàn de fēi​cháng biàn​jié.

Travel between Suzhou and Shanghai has become very convenient now.

perilla noun
the perilla plant (Perilla frutescens), also known as Chinese basil or wild red basil

紫苏的叶子可以入药。

zǐ​sū de yè​zi kě​yǐ rù yào.

Perilla leaves can be used in medicine.

phonetic proper name
used as a phonetic character in transliteration, notably for the Soviet Union or names

苏格拉底是著名的哲学家。

Sū​gé​lā​dǐ shì zhù​míng de zhé​xué​jiā.

Socrates is a famous philosopher.

revive verb
to regain consciousness or come back to life

他在医生的救治下，终于从昏迷中苏醒了过来。

tā zài yī​shēng de jiù​zhì xià, zhōng​yú cóng hūn​mí zhōng sū​xǐng le guò​lái.

Under the doctor's care, he finally woke up from his coma.

苏 (甦) sū
revive verb
to revive

大地在春天万物复苏。

dà​dì zài chūn​tiān wàn​wù fù​sū.

Everything on earth revives in the spring.

Frequency
Character
Written text
590th most common 353.9 per million
Movie subtitles
1,047th most common 95.3 per million appears in 24% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
14.8 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
52.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Traditional
蘇囌
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+82CF

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