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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
Taiwan province (PRC term)
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)
thrifty; economical; sparing
Shandong Province, capital Jinan 濟南市|济南市 (abbr. to 魯|鲁)
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)
Sichuan Province, capital Chengdu 成都市 (abbr. to or )
Hainan Province, capital Haikou 海口市 (abbr. to 瓊|琼)
foreign ministry (e.g. of Japan or Korea)
Gansu Province, capital Lanzhou 蘭州市|兰州市 (abbr. to or 隴|陇)
Jilin Province, capital Changchun 長春市|长春市 (abbr. to )
Yunnan Province, capital Kunming 昆明市 (abbr. to 雲|云 or )
Hunan Province, capital Changsha 長沙市|长沙市 (abbr. to )
morning and evening visits to parents / cf 昏定晨省
Hubei Province, capital Wuhan 武漢市|武汉市 (abbr. to )
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)
interprovincial; multiprovincial
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
Aceh province of Indonesia in northwest Sumatra
Henan Province, capital Zhengzhou 鄭州市|郑州市 (abbr. to )
Heilongjiang Province, capital Harbin 哈爾濱市|哈尔滨市 (abbr. to )
Jiangsu Province, capital Nanjing 南京市 (abbr. to 蘇|苏)
Shaanxi Province, capital Xi'an 西安市 (abbr. to 陝|陕 or )
to examine oneself / to reflect on one's shortcomings / introspection / self-awareness / self-criticism
to reflect upon oneself / introspection
Ontario province, Canada
Hebei Province, capital Shijiazhuang 石家莊市|石家庄市 (abbr. to )
Wardak (Afghan province)
Huambo province of Angola
province (old)
to go home for a visit; to return to one's parents' home to pay respects
major agricultural province
Anhui Province, capital Hefei 合肥市 (abbr. to )
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)
Liaoning Province, capital Shenyang 瀋陽市|沈阳市 (abbr. to 遼|辽)
British Columbia, Pacific province of Canada
Nangarhar province of Afghanistan
Fujian Province, capital Fuzhou 福州市 (abbr. to 閩|闽)
relaxed / easy
Qinghai Province, capital Xining 西寧市|西宁市 (abbr. to )
former Ningxia province, now Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 寧夏回族自治區|宁夏回族自治区
Guizhou Province, capital Guiyang 貴陽市|贵阳市 (abbr. to 貴|贵 or )
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
name of Qing dynasty province covering south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces, with capital at Nanjing
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 provide food for thought (idiom) / thought-provoking
to simplify / to reduce to essentials / economical
Ministry of Health and Welfare (Japan) (replaced in 2001 by 厚生勞動省|厚生劳动省)
Balochistan (Pakistan)
Ghazni or Ghaznah province of Afghanistan
Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (Japan)
former Suiyuan province in Inner Mongolia and Shanxi
Punjab province of Pakistan
Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (Japan), ceased to exist in 2001 when it was merged with another ministry
Herat province of Afghanistan
Kandahar province of Afghanistan
Baghlan province of north Afghanistan
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)
rubicene (chemistry)
seeing to bed in the evening and visiting in the morning (ancient filial duty)


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