苏门答腊岛

Sumatra (one of the Indonesian islands)

gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

variant of 島|岛[dao3]

island / CL:個|个[ge4],座[zuo4]

bound form having the same meaning as the free word 答[da2], used in 答應|答应[da1 ying5], 答理[da1 li5] etc

to answer / to reply / to respond

used in 嚕囌|噜苏[lu1 su1]

variant of 蘇|苏[su1] / to revive

surname Su / abbr. for Soviet Union 蘇維埃|苏维埃 or 蘇聯|苏联 / abbr. for Jiangsu province 江蘇|江苏 / abbr. for Suzhou city 蘇州|苏州

Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil) / place name / to revive / used as phonetic in transliteration

old variant of 蘇|苏[su1]

dried meat / also pr. [xi2]

old variant of 臘|腊[la4] / 12th lunar month

12th lunar month / preserved (meat, fish etc)

old variant of 臘|腊[la4]

ancient practice of offering sacrifices to the gods in the 12th lunar month / the 12th lunar month / (bound form) (of meat, fish etc) cured in winter, esp. in the 12th lunar month

Sumatra, one of the Indonesian islands