蘇

See also 蘓, and 苏

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 艸 + phonetic 穌

Han character

蘇 (radical 140 艸+16, 22 strokes, cangjie input 廿弓火木 (TNFD), four-corner 4439₄)

1. revive, resurrect
2. a species of thyme
3. transliteration of "Soviet"
4. transliteration of "Scotland"
5. a surname

References

• KangXi: page 1068, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32427
• Dae Jaweon: page 1534, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3327, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8607

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Cantonese

Hanzi

蘇 (simplified 苏, Yale sou1)

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Japanese

Kanji

蘇

Readings

• On: そ (so), す (su)
• Kun: よみがえる (yomigaeru)

Compounds

• 蘇芳
• 蘇生
• 蘇民将来
• 紫蘇

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Korean

Hanja

蘇 (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune-Reischauer so, Yale so)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

蘇 (simplified 苏, pinyin sū (su1), Wade-Giles su¹)

Compounds

• 蘇聯
• 蘇醒
• 苏梗 or 蘇梗

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Min Nan

Hanzi

蘇

Descendants

• (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: So

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Vietnamese

Han character

蘇 (tô, to, su, tua)