省

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

省 (radical 109 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 火竹月山 (FHBU), four-corner 9060₂, composition ⿱少目)

1. province
2. save, economize

References

• KangXi: page 802, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23179
• Dae Jaweon: page 1218, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2473, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7701

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Cantonese

Hanzi

省 (Yale saang2, sing2)

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Japanese

Kanji

省 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: せい (sei), しょう (shō)
• Kun: かえりみる (kaerimiru), はぶく (habuku), みる (miru)

Prefix

省 (hiragana しょう, romaji shō-)

1. saving, conservation

Suffix

省 (hiragana しょう, romaji -shō)

1. ministry

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Korean

Hanja

省 (hangeul 성, 생, revised seong, saeng, McCune-Reischauer sŏng, saeng, Yale seng, sayng)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Noun

省 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin shěng)

1. province

Hanzi

省 (pinyin shěng (sheng3), Wade-Giles sheng³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

省 (tỉnh, xển, xỉnh, xĩnh, tểnh, tễnh)