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Meanings
Noun
1. way, means, possibility, ability; used to express ability, in constructions equivalent to the English modal "can" (after verbal or adjectival adnominals)
2. move (board games)
3. ability, talent, skill (originally board games, also figurative, figuratively)
4. number
5. destiny, fate (especially a favorable one) (less common)
6. male (non-human) (uncommon, usually used as a prefix)
7. water, as one of the Five Phases of East Asian cosmology
8. embroidering (in cloth)
9. vedanā (sensation in Buddhist philosophy) (Buddhism, philosophy)
10. bottom (in a gay sexual relationship); uke (slang)
11. pith (of wood) (timber industry)
12. bone marrow (uncommon)
13. From the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, two government offices both belonging to the 정사품(正四品) (jeongsapum, “upper degree of the fourth rank of government”)
a. An office supervising court food supplies
b. An honorary office given to distant royal relatives
Pronunciation
su
Examples528
He might have gone to China as well.
I suppose that's all you can do.
I can't move.
At the very least, my skill in English is a notch better than hers.
to embroider silk
I wish there was more I could've done.