省

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		省

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 省
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (省) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
省	*sreŋʔ, *sleŋʔ
渻	*saːl, *sreŋʔ, *seŋʔ
箵	*sleːŋʔ

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 省

1. to omit; to leave out
2. to reduce, to simplify

   船：舟也。从舟，鉛省聲。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   船：舟也。从舟，铅省声。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: Shuowen Jiezi, circa 2^nd century CE

   Chuán: zhōu yě. Cóng zhōu, qiān shěng shēng. [Pinyin]

   船 (chuán): boat. From 舟 (zhōu), and a reduced form of 鉛／铅 used as the phonetic component.

3. to save, to economize

   省電／省电  ―  shěngdiàn  ―  to conserve electricity

4. (historical) palace

   禁中者，門戶有禁，非侍禦者不得入，故曰禁中。孝元皇后父大司馬陽平侯名禁，當時避之，故曰省中。 [MSC, trad.]
   禁中者，门户有禁，非侍御者不得入，故曰禁中。孝元皇后父大司马阳平侯名禁，当时避之，故曰省中。 [MSC, simp.]

   From: 漢蔡邕《獨斷》

   Jìnzhōng zhě, ménhù yǒu jìn, fēi shìyù zhě bùdé rù, gù yuē jìnzhōng. Xiàoyuán Huánghòu fù dàsīmǎ Yángpíng Hóu míng Jìn, dāngshí bì zhī, gù yuē shěngzhōng. [Pinyin]

   CL

5. (historical, by extension) department (of a government)
6. province; (originally) Short for 行省 (xíngshěng).

Descendants

• → Bouyei: senj
• → Lü: ᦵᦌᦲᧃ (soen)
• → Zhuang: sengj

See also

• 縣／县 (xiàn, “Japanese prefecture”)
• 州 (zhōu, “state”)

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 省

1. to examine; to inspect
2. to greet; to visit
3. to understand; to comprehend

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

省

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. government ministry
2. Chinese province

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: せい (sei, Jōyō)
• Kun: かえりみる (kaerimiru, 省みる, Jōyō)^{←かへりみる (kaferimiru, 省みる, historical)}; はぶく (habuku, 省く, Jōyō); みる (miru, 省る)
• Nanori: さとし (satoshi)

Prefix

省(しょう) • (shō-) 

1. saving, conservation

Suffix

省(しょう) • (-shō) 

1. ministry

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Korean

Hanja

省 • (seong, saeng) (hangeul 성, 생)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 省 (tỉnh, xển, xỉnh, xĩnh, tểnh, tễnh)

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