省

HSK 4#300 by frequencyradical 目

shěng["n","v"]

province; to save; to economize; to be frugal; to omit; to delete; to leave out; provincial capital; a ministry (of the Japanese government)

xǐng

(bound form) to scrutinize; (bound form) to reflect (on one's conduct); (bound form) to come to realize; (bound form) to pay a visit (to one's parents or elders)

Examples

浙江省在哪里？

Where is Zhejiang Province?

荷兰分成十二个省。

The Netherlands is divided into twelve provinces.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.