す
Su
素 (Su) is a Japanese noun meaning “one's nature, one's feelings, oneself, plain”.
Meanings
- nounone's nature; one's feelings; oneself
- adjectival nounplain; unadorned; undecorated; unadulterated; au naturel
- prefixmere; poorbefore a noun
- prefixexceedinglybefore an adjective
Examples
どうやら、さっきのは演技ではなく、素だったらしい。
It seems like that she wasn't acting back then; they were her real feelings.
生粋のお嬢様だからな。残念ながら悪戯とかじゃなくてあれで素だ。
She's pure bred blue-blood you see. Unfortunately that's no sort of put-on but her natural self.
Sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).