治

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to rule; to govern; to manage; to control; to harness (a river); to treat (a disease); to wipe out (a pest); to punish; to research

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

A structure 台 that directs the flow of water 氵

Components 氵台

govern · Heisig RSH #673

水 water + 台 platform

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
自治区	zì zhì qū	autonomous region – a provincial-level administrative division of China with self-governan…
自治县	zì zhì xiàn	autonomous county
自治市	zì zhì shì	municipality; autonomous city; also called directly administered city 直轄市\|直辖市
安克拉治	Ān kè lā zhì	Anchorage (Alaska)
长治市	Cháng zhì Shì	Changzhi, prefecture-level city in Shanxi Province 山西省[Shan1 xi1 Sheng3]
不治	bù zhì	to die of illness or injury despite receiving medical help
地方自治	dì fāng zì zhì	local autonomy; home rule
人治	rén zhì	rule of man
大理白族自治州	Dà lǐ Bái zú Zì zhì zhōu	Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, in Yunnan Province 雲南省\|云南省[Yun2 nan2 Sheng3]
治多县	Zhì duō Xiàn	Zhidoi, a county in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 玉樹藏族自治州\|玉树藏族自治州[Yu4 shu4 Zang4 zu2…
治国	zhì guó	to rule a country
治水	zhì shuǐ	to manage water storage and flows, esp. to control flooding
治学	zhì xué	scholarship; high-level study; to do scholarly research; to pursue a high level of study
三文治	sān wén zhì	(loanword) sandwich
自治	zì zhì	autonomy
长阳土家族自治县	Cháng yáng Tǔ jiā zú Zì zhì xiàn	Changyang Tujia Autonomous County, in Yichang City 宜昌市[Yi2 chang1 Shi4], Hubei
治安	zhì ān	law and order; public security
治气	zhì qì	to get angry
分治	fēn zhì	separate government; partition
自治机关	zì zhì jī guān	governing body of an autonomous territory