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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *省* | 省* | *省
to save; to economize; to be frugal / to omit; to delete; to leave out / province / provincial capital / a ministry (of the Japanese government)
HSK 2
saving / to save / to use sparingly / to cut down on
HSK 4
to reflect upon oneself / to examine one's conscience / to question oneself / to search one's soul
HSK 7-9
the whole province
Guangdong Province, capital Guangzhou 廣州市|广州市 (abbr. to 粵|粤)
Yunnan Province, capital Kunming 昆明市 (abbr. to 雲|云 or )
Jiangsu Province, capital Nanjing 南京市 (abbr. to 蘇|苏)
to reflect upon oneself / introspection
Henan Province, capital Zhengzhou 鄭州市|郑州市 (abbr. to )
Hebei Province, capital Shijiazhuang 石家莊市|石家庄市 (abbr. to )
Qinghai Province, capital Xining 西寧市|西宁市 (abbr. to )
Hainan Province, capital Haikou 海口市 (abbr. to 瓊|琼)
Sichuan Province, capital Chengdu 成都市 (abbr. to or )
Zhejiang Province, capital Hangzhou 杭州市 (abbr. to )
Hubei Province, capital Wuhan 武漢市|武汉市 (abbr. to )
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *省* | 省* | *省
(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)
Fujian Province, capital Fuzhou 福州市 (abbr. to 閩|闽)
Jiangxi Province, capital Nanchang 南昌市 (abbr. to 灨|赣)
Ministry of Health and Welfare (Japan) (replaced in 2001 by 厚生勞動省|厚生劳动省)
morning and evening visits to parents / cf 昏定晨省
Anhui Province, capital Hefei 合肥市 (abbr. to )
Jilin Province, capital Changchun 長春市|长春市 (abbr. to )
Hunan Province, capital Changsha 長沙市|长沙市 (abbr. to )
Heilongjiang Province, capital Harbin 哈爾濱市|哈尔滨市 (abbr. to )
Shanxi Province, capital Taiyuan 太原市 (abbr. to 晉|晋)
Gansu Province, capital Lanzhou 蘭州市|兰州市 (abbr. to or 隴|陇)
Guizhou Province, capital Guiyang 貴陽市|贵阳市 (abbr. to 貴|贵 or )
province (old)
to provide food for thought (idiom) / thought-provoking
the three provinces of Northeast China, namely: Liaoning Province 遼寧省|辽宁省, Jilin Province 吉林省 and Heilongjiang Province 黑龍江省|黑龙江省
Shaanxi Province, capital Xi'an 西安市 (abbr. to 陝|陕 or )
relaxed / easy
Liaoning Province, capital Shenyang 瀋陽市|沈阳市 (abbr. to 遼|辽)
thrifty; economical; sparing
to go home for a visit; to return to one's parents' home to pay respects
Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (Japan), ceased to exist in 2001 when it was merged with another ministry
default (setting)
Guangxi Province, which in 1958 became Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region 廣西壯族自治區|广西壮族自治区, capital Nanning 南寧|南宁
former Suiyuan province in Inner Mongolia and Shanxi
to examine oneself / to reflect on one's shortcomings / introspection / self-awareness / self-criticism
western Kham / historic province of Tibet in Kham region and west Sichuan, a province of Republic of China 1928-49 with capital Ya'an 雅安
former Ningxia province, now Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 寧夏回族自治區|宁夏回族自治区
Ghazni or Ghaznah province of Afghanistan
seeing to bed in the evening and visiting in the morning (ancient filial duty)
Ontario province, Canada
to realize suddenly / to suddenly recall
Taiwan province (PRC term)
interprovincial; multiprovincial
Töv Province (Töv Aimag) of Mongolia / Central Province (the name of provinces in various nations)
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (Japan)
name of Qing dynasty province covering south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces, with capital at Nanjing
Wardak (Afghan province)
Herat province of Afghanistan
British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
Aceh province of Indonesia in northwest Sumatra
Sindh province of Pakistan
Balochistan (Pakistan)
Kandahar province of Afghanistan
foreign ministry (e.g. of Japan or Korea)
Shandong Province, capital Jinan 濟南市|济南市 (abbr. to 魯|鲁)
Baghlan province of north Afghanistan
Punjab province of Pakistan
Nangarhar province of Afghanistan
rubicene (chemistry)
major agricultural province
to simplify / to reduce to essentials / economical
Huambo province of Angola
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)


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