省 shěng▶ provincia

Stroke order

省 is written in 9 strokes.

• 省

Senses

1. to save; to economize; to be frugal
2. to omit; to delete; to leave out
3. province
4. provincial capital
5. a ministry (of the Japanese government)

Example sentences

• 四川是中国的一个省。Sìchuān shì Zhōngguó de yī gè shěng.Sichuan is a province of China.
• 他出生在山东省。Tā chūshēng zài Shāndōng shěng.He was born in Shandong Province.

Related words

• 省略elipsis
• 节省guardar
• 省会capital provincial

省 is pronounced shěng and means “provincia”. It belongs to the HSK 4 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 省 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.