肃 (sù): respectful, solemn, to eliminate
肃 (sù) is a Chinese character meaning “respectful.” Classified as HSK Level 5 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 肀 (structural). It ranks #1508 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Definitions
- respectful
- solemn
- to eliminate
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 肃
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 肃静 | sù jìng | solemnly silent |
| 肃清 | sù qīng | to purge |
| 肃然起敬 | sù rán qǐ jìng | to feel deep veneration for sb (idiom) |
| 肃穆 | sù mù | solemn and respectful |
| 整肃 | zhěng sù | strict |
| 肃立 | sù lì | to stand respectfully |
| 肃反运动 | sù fǎn yùn dòng | purge of counterrevolutionaries (esp. Mao's purge of hidden counterrevolutionaries 1955-56 and Stalin's Great Purge 1... |
| 肃北蒙古族自治县 | sù běi měng gǔ zú zì zhì xiàn | Subei Mongol Autonomous County, in Jiuquan City 酒泉市[Jiu3 quan2 Shi4], Gansu |
| 肃然 | sù rán | respectful |
| 肃州区 | sù zhōu qū | Suzhou, a district of Jiuquan City 酒泉市[Jiu3 quan2 Shi4], Gansu |
| 肃反 | sù fǎn | to eliminate counterrevolutionaries (abbr. for 肅清反革命分子|肃清反革命分子[su4 qing1 fan3 ge2 ming4 fen4 zi3]) |
| 肃南裕固族自治县 | sù nán yù gù zú zì zhì xiàn | Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, in Zhangye City 張掖市|张掖市[Zhang1 ye4 Shi4], Gansu |
| 王肃 | wáng sù | Wang Su (c. 195-256), classical scholar of Cao Wei dynasty, believed to have forged several classical texts |
| 肃南 | sù nán | see 肅南裕固族自治縣|肃南裕固族自治县[Su4 nan2 Yu4 gu4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] |
| 肃杀 | sù shā | austere |
肃 appears in 30 compound words: 70 as the first character, 20 as the last, and 10 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 肃 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
写好肃字需要掌握正确的笔画顺序。
xiě hǎo sù zì xū yāo zhǎng wò zhēng què de bǐ huà shùn xù .
To write the character "肃" correctly, you need to master the proper stroke order.
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gān sù : ràng huó zī chǎn kě dǐ yā pò jiě dài máo bù suàn róng . . .
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xīn chūn qǐ xīn chéng gān sù : tiào qǐ mō gāo cù fā zhǎn guāng míng wǎng
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整肃将官 美智库:共军短期攻台极其困难
zhěng sù jiāng guān měi zhì kù : gòng jūn duǎn qī gōng tái jí qí kùn nán
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gān sù gōng jiāo jiàn jí tuán 彭 dà , líng huá gāo sù yǐ jiān shǒu hù píng ān yǐ . . .
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我瞬间对你肃然起敬！
Wǒ shùnjiān duì nǐ sùránqǐjìng!
I am immediately in awe of you!
现在让我们谈谈严肃的事情吧！
Xiànzài ràng wǒmen tántán yánsù de shìqing ba!
Now let us talk about serious matters!
你应该理解，这是严肃的。
Nǐ yīnggāi lǐjiě, zhè shì yánsù de.
You should understand, this is serious.
对事情比较正经严肃。
Duì shìqing bǐjiào zhèngjīng yánsù.
Take things a little more seriously.
Character Family
聿 Radical Family — Characters sharing the brush radical
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