蘇
sū

revive

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.

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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
Simplified
苏
Strokes
19
Unicode
U+8607

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