诉
sù HSK1

accuse

诉 (訴) sù
sue noun
to sue, litigate, or take legal action against someone

如果你再不还钱，他就准备去法院诉你。

rú​guǒ nǐ zài bù huán qián, tā jiù zhǔn​bèi qù fǎ​yuàn sù nǐ.

If you don't pay him back, he plans to sue you in court.

tell verb
to tell, relate, or inform someone of something

她含着泪向朋友诉了心中的痛苦。

tā hán zhe lèi xiàng péng​you sù le xīn​zhōng de tòng​kǔ.

Tearfully, she told her friend about the pain in her heart.

complain verb
to complain, air grievances, or vent frustrations

他满心委屈，却无处去诉。

tā mǎn​xīn wěi​qu, què wú chù qù sù.

He was full of grievances but had nowhere to vent them.

Frequency
Character
Written text
595th most common 352.2 per million
Movie subtitles
127th most common 1403.8 per million appears in 99% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.38 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
13.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Traditional
訴
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+8BC9

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