苏 — Chinese character
苏
sū
to awaken, to revive, to resurrect; used in transliterations
- Pinyin
- sū
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 艹 办
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 稣
- Traditional
- 囌 蘇
Common words with 苏
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 苏丹 (蘇丹) | sū dān | (loanword) sultan |
| 复苏 (復甦) | fù sū | to recover (health, economic); to resuscitate |
| 复苏 (復蘇) | fù sū | variant of 复苏 (fù sū); to recover (health, economic) |
| 苏醒 (甦醒) | sū xǐng | to come to; to awaken |
| 苏打 (蘇打) | sū dá | (loanword) soda; (loanword) carbonated drink; soft drink |
| 苏木 (蘇木) | sū mù | sappan wood (Caesalpinia sappan), used in Chinese medicine; administrative subdivision of banner 旗 (county) in Inner Mongolia (Mongol: arrow) |
| 流苏 (流蘇) | liú sū | tassels |
| 紫苏 (紫蘇) | zǐ sū | beefsteak plant; shiso |
| 苏铁 (蘇鐵) | sū tiě | sago palm (Cycas revoluta) |
| 小苏打 (小蘇打) | xiǎo sū dá | baking soda; sodium bicarbonate; Taiwan pr. [xiao3su1da3] |
| 苏打水 (蘇打水) | sū dá shuǐ | soda water; carbonated water |
| 白苏 (白蘇) | bái sū | common perilla |
English words written with 苏
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.