酥 (sū)
crispy; flaky; soft; pastry
How 酥 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 酉 — wine/alcohol
- Traditional
- 酥
- Simplified
- 酥 (unchanged)
Components
- 酉 wine/alcohol
- 禾 grain
Common words using 酥
- 酥脆 sūcuì
- crisp (of food)
- 耶酥 yēsū
- Jesus (耶稣 is more usual)
- 蝴蝶酥 húdiésū
- crispy short-crust pastry; mille-feuilles
- 酥油 sūyóu
- butter
- 酥油茶 sūyóuchá
- butter tea (Tibetan, Mongolian etc drink derived from milk)
- 酥軟 sūruǎn
- weak (of body or limbs); limp; gone soft
- 酥麻 sūmá
- limp and numb (of limbs)
- 香酥 xiāngsū
- crisp-fried
- 奶酥 nǎisū
- butter biscuit; butter bun
- 酥鬆 sūsōng
- loose; shortening (fat used in cooking cakes)
酥 in a sentence
鳳梨酥是台灣有名的伴手禮。
Fènglísū shì Táiwān yǒumíng de bànshǒulǐ.
“Pineapple cakes are a famous souvenir from Taiwan.”
How common is 酥?
酥 is the 3,509th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 99.6% of all running text.
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