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Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil); place name; to revive; used as phonetic in transliteration
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- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 艸 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 囌
- Common rank
- #507
- Unicode
- U+82CF
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How to remember it
revive · Heisig RSH #745
flower + sweat
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 苏
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阿克苏地区 | Aksu, prefecture in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区[Xin1 jiang1 Wei2 w… | |
| 苏台德地区 | Sudetenland | |
| 马苏里拉 | (loanword) mozzarella | |
| 苏州大学 | Suzhou or Soochow University (Suzhou, PRC since 1986) | |
| 阿克苏市 | Aksu, a county-level city in Aksu Prefecture 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区[A1 ke4 su1 Di4 qu1], Xinjiang | |
| 苏花公路 | Suhua Highway, coastal road in northern Taiwan, built on the side of cliffs above the Paci… | |
| 阿克苏河 | Aksu River in Xinjiang | |
| 苏里南河 | Suriname River | |
| 苏打水 | soda water; carbonated water | |
| 马苏德 | Massoud (name); Ahmed Shah Massoud (1953-2001), Tajik Afghan engineer, military man and an… | |
| 小苏打 | baking soda; sodium bicarbonate; Taiwan pr. [xiao3su1da3] | |
| 阿苏山 | Mount Aso, active volcano in Kyushu, Japan | |
| 乌苏里斯克 | Ussuriisk city in Russian Pacific Primorsky region; previous names include 雙城子|双城子[Shuang1… | |
| 苏利南 | Suriname, NE of South America (Tw) | |
| 苏州市 | Suzhou, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省[Jiang1 su1 Sheng3] | |
| 阿克苏 | see 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区[A1 ke4 su1 Di4 qu1]; see 阿克蘇市|阿克苏市[A1 ke4 su1 Shi4]; see 阿克蘇河|阿克苏河[A1 ke4 … | |
| 苏里南 | Suriname | |
| 明尼苏达州 | Minnesota | |
| 苏美尔 | Sumer (Šumer), one of the early civilizations of the Ancient Near East | |
| 苏宁电器 | Suning Appliance (PRC electrical retailer) |