Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil); surname Su; place name; old variant of 苏; abbr. for Suzhou city 苏州; to revive; variant of 苏; abbr. for Soviet Union 苏维埃 or 苏联; see 啰苏; abbr. for Jiangsu province 江苏; used as phonetic in transliteration