HSK 6 · Body

苏醒 sūxǐng “to regain consciousness” in Chinese

Traditional 甦醒

What 苏醒 means

  1. to regain consciousness
  2. to come to
  3. to revive
  4. to awaken

How to say 苏醒

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale苏sū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale醒xǐng3rd tone, dipping

苏醒 in a sentence

  1. 春天来了，大地苏醒了。

    Chūntiān lái le, dàdì sūxǐng le.

    Spring has come and the land is coming back to life.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 过了一会儿，他慢慢苏醒过来。

    Guò le yíhuìr, tā mànmàn sūxǐng guolai.

    After a while, he slowly came to.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 苏醒 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 苏 (sū) with each of its parts in a different colour
苏sūto revive
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎoMeaning part
  • 办to set up · bàn

艹 hints at the meaning (grass); 稣 (sū) hints at the sound. Compare it with sū.

The character 醒 (xǐng) with each of its parts in a different colour
醒xǐngto wake up
  • 酉wine vessel · yǒuMeaning part
  • 星star · xīngSound part

酉 hints at the meaning (wine vessel); 星 (xīng) hints at the sound. Compare it with xǐng.

How to write 苏醒

苏 7 strokes · 醒 16 strokes

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苏醒 (sūxǐng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 苏醒 (sūxǐng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 苏醒

Words with 醒

醒xǐng · to wake up提醒tíxǐng · to remind清醒qīngxǐng · sober觉醒juéxǐng · to awaken

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FAQs

苏醒 (sūxǐng) means “to regain consciousness” or “to come to”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it sūxǐng: sū with a 1st tone, then xǐng with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 苏醒 is written 甦醒. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type suxing with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 苏醒 from the suggestions. Typing suxing into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
苏醒 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.