省
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to save; to economize; to be frugal; to omit; to delete; to leave out; province; provincial capital; a ministry (of the Japanese government)
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- 目 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 省
- Common rank
- #720
- Unicode
- U+7701
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 省
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不省人事 | to lose consciousness; unconscious; in a coma | |
| 山西省 | Shanxi Province, capital Taiyuan 太原市[Tai4 yuan2 Shi4] (short name 晉|晋[Jin4]) | |
| 麻省理工学院 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | |
| 海南省 | Hainan Province, capital Haikou 海口市[Hai3 kou3 Shi4] (short name 瓊|琼[Qiong2]) | |
| 山东省 | Shandong Province, capital Jinan 濟南市|济南市[Ji3 nan2 Shi4] (short name 魯|鲁[Lu3]) | |
| 黑龙江省 | Heilongjiang Province, capital Harbin 哈爾濱市|哈尔滨市[Ha1 er3 bin1 Shi4] (short name 黑[Hei1]) | |
| 本省人 | people of this province; (in Taiwan) Han Chinese people other than those who moved to Taiw… | |
| 瓦尔达克省 | Wardak (Afghan province) | |
| 巴格兰省 | Baghlan province of north Afghanistan | |
| 东三省 | the three provinces of Northeast China, namely: Liaoning Province 遼寧省|辽宁省[Liao2 ning2 Shen… | |
| 省直管县 | direct management of a county by the province (PRC administrative reform) | |
| 江西省 | Jiangxi Province, capital Nanchang 南昌市[Nan2 chang1 Shi4] (short name 灨|赣[Gan4]) | |
| 发人深省 | to provide food for thought (idiom); thought-provoking | |
| 河南省 | Henan Province, capital Zhengzhou 鄭州市|郑州市[Zheng4 zhou1 Shi4] (short name 豫[Yu4]) | |
| 江南省 | name of Qing dynasty province covering south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provi… | |
| 内省性 | introversion; introspective | |
| 信德省 | Sindh province of Pakistan | |
| 青海省 | Qinghai Province, capital Xining 西寧市|西宁市[Xi1 ning2 Shi4] (short name 青[Qing1]) | |
| 河北省 | Hebei Province, capital Shijiazhuang 石家莊市|石家庄市[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1 Shi4] (short name 冀[Ji4]) | |
| 农林水产省 | Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 少 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 少 sound part | few, little; less; inadequate | |
| 沙 | sand, gravel, pebbles; granulated | |
| 妙 | mysterious, subtle; clever, exquisite, wonderful | |
| 炒 | to boil, to fry, to roast, to sauté; to trade stock | |
| 抄 | copy, plagiarism; to confiscate, to seize | |
| 纱 | gauze, muslin, yarn | |
| 秒 | a second; a corn kernel; measure word for time | |
| 钞 | bank note, paper money; to counterfeit | |
| 吵 | to argue, to dispute; to annoy, to disturb | |
| 耖 | harrow-like implement for pulverizing clods of soil; to level ground with such an implemen… |