苏
囌sū
#590 most
frequent character
used in 嚕囌|噜苏[lu1su1]
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
苏 is a shorthand for 蘇. It keeps 艹 vegetation and an empty part 办, which stands for the old sound part 穌. The first meaning was a kind of plant. The sense “to revive” was borrowed by sound, then grew to “wake up”; the character also shortens Jiangsu and Suzhou by sound.
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