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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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 save money
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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)
subprovincial city (having independent economic status within a province)
to reflect upon oneself / to examine one's conscience / to question oneself / to search one's soul
HSK 7-9
Guangdong Province, capital Guangzhou 廣州市|广州市 (abbr. to 粵|粤)
to lose consciousness / unconscious / in a coma
Sichuan Province, capital Chengdu 成都市 (abbr. to or )
Hainan Province, capital Haikou 海口市 (abbr. to 瓊|琼)
abbr. for the economic region of Guangdong Province (or Guangzhou), Hong Kong and Macao
Jiangsu Province, capital Nanjing 南京市 (abbr. to 蘇|苏)
Taiwan province (PRC term)
province
(coll.) Don't waste your breath. / Save it!
Jilin Province, capital Changchun 長春市|长春市 (abbr. to )
Hunan Province, capital Changsha 長沙市|长沙市 (abbr. to )
morning and evening visits to parents / cf 昏定晨省
to simplify matters; to save trouble
HSK 7-9
Hubei Province, capital Wuhan 武漢市|武汉市 (abbr. to )
to avoid / so as to save (money or time)
the whole province
Sindh province of Pakistan
Töv Province (Töv Aimag) of Mongolia / Central Province (the name of provinces in various nations)
Shanxi Province, capital Taiyuan 太原市 (abbr. to 晉|晋)
provinces and cities
interprovincial; multiprovincial
Liaoning Province, capital Shenyang 瀋陽市|沈阳市 (abbr. to 遼|辽)
to omit / to dispense with / to make unnecesary / to save (time, trouble etc)
to leave out / an omission
HSK 7-9
Henan Province, capital Zhengzhou 鄭州市|郑州市 (abbr. to )
Guizhou Province, capital Guiyang 貴陽市|贵阳市 (abbr. to 貴|贵 or )
foreign ministry (e.g. of Japan or Korea)
British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
convenient
relaxed / easy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
to examine oneself / to reflect on one's shortcomings / introspection / self-awareness / self-criticism
Shiing-Shen Chern (1911-2004), Chinese-American mathematician
Ontario province, Canada
Shandong Province, capital Jinan 濟南市|济南市 (abbr. to 魯|鲁)
Hebei Province, capital Shijiazhuang 石家莊市|石家庄市 (abbr. to )
to cause no trouble / to be spared worry / worry-free
province (old)
Heilongjiang Province, capital Harbin 哈爾濱市|哈尔滨市 (abbr. to )
to save labor / to save effort
to go home for a visit; to return to one's parents' home to pay respects
Anhui Province, capital Hefei 合肥市 (abbr. to )
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
Jiangxi Province, capital Nanchang 南昌市 (abbr. to 灨|赣)
Zhejiang Province, capital Hangzhou 杭州市 (abbr. to )
to realize suddenly / to suddenly recall
default (setting)
perceptive; understanding / (archaic) to handle administrative work
provincial capital
abbreviation
Fujian Province, capital Fuzhou 福州市 (abbr. to 閩|闽)
Qinghai Province, capital Xining 西寧市|西宁市 (abbr. to )
sub-provincial (not provincial status, but independent)
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (Japan)
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
to save electricity
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
Shaanxi Province, capital Xi'an 西安市 (abbr. to 陝|陕 or )
to simplify / to reduce to essentials / economical
to live frugally
name of Qing dynasty province covering south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces, with capital at Nanjing
to provide food for thought (idiom) / thought-provoking
direct management of a county by the province (PRC administrative reform)
provincial city
Ghazni or Ghaznah province of Afghanistan
to examine / to cast a critical eye over (especially in the context of introspection)
Ministry of Health and Welfare (Japan) (replaced in 2001 by 厚生勞動省|厚生劳动省)
to wake up to reality / to come to oneself / to realize / to see the truth
sb who is easy to deal with
Balochistan (Pakistan)
provincial boundary
(punctuation) ellipsis
to visit one's parents
a provincial capital
to save / to get rid of (so saving space)
Punjab province of Pakistan
(administrative) province-level
Aceh province of Indonesia in northwest Sumatra
Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (Japan), ceased to exist in 2001 when it was merged with another ministry
people of this province / (in Taiwan) Han Chinese people other than those who moved to Taiwan from mainland China after 1945 and their descendants
to save labor / to save effort
to conserve mobile data; to minimize mobile data usage (abbr. for 省流量)
governor of a province
(linguistics) elision
provincial Party committee
former Ningxia province, now Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 寧夏回族自治區|宁夏回族自治区
Herat province of Afghanistan
Baghlan province of north Afghanistan
major agricultural province
frugal; thrifty
former Suiyuan province in Inner Mongolia and Shanxi
an apostrophe (punct.)
introversion / introspective
Kandahar province of Afghanistan

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