Chinese symbol for “crunchy”
酥
sū
flaky pastry; crunchy; limp; soft
The closest CC-CEDICT match for crunchy is 酥 (sū), defined as: flaky pastry; crunchy; limp; soft; silky.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “crunchy”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 脆 | cuì | brittle; fragile |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 酥.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 酥脆 | sū cuì | crisp (of food) |
| 酥油 | sū yóu | butter |
| 酥油茶 | sū yóu chá | butter tea (Tibetan, Mongolian etc drink derived from milk) |
| 酥软 (酥軟) | sū ruǎn | weak (of body or limbs); limp |
| 奶酥 | nǎi sū | butter biscuit; butter bun |
| 酥麻 | sū má | limp and numb (of limbs) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “crunchy”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.