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

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