省 - shěng - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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HSK 4 - Medium
9 strokes
Traditional (switch to Simplified)

省

shěng

Definition

to save (money)
我在省錢買新車。

I'm saving up to buy a new car.
province

Other pronunciations

xǐng

to inspect
to examine
to be aware
to pay a visit (to one's parents or elders)

Character Decomposition

Related words (41)

省事

shěng shì

to simplify matters; to save trouble

province

provincial capital

convenient

frugal; economic; to scrimp and save

省力

shěng lì

to save labor; to save effort

省勁

shěng jìn

to save labor; to save effort

省卻

shěng què

to save; to get rid of (so saving space)

省去

shěng qù

to omit; to dispense with; to make unnecesary; to save (time, trouble etc)

a provincial capital

provincial capital

provincial Party committee

省得

shěng de

to avoid; (so as) to save (money or time); (so as) to avoid

省心

shěng xīn

to cause no trouble; to be spared worry; worry-free

a provincial capital

to save electricity

provincial boundaries; provincial boundary

省略

shěng lüè

to leave out; an omission

abbreviation

(administrative) province-level

to save money

governor of a province

省字號

shěng zì hào

an apostrophe (punct.)

省略號

shěng lüè hào

the ellipsis …… (punct., consisting of six dots)

省省吧

shěng sheng ba

(coll.) Don't waste your breath.; Save it!

provincial city

to live frugally; to economize on food and clothing; to scrimp and save

省油的燈

shěng yóu de dēng

sb who is easy to deal with

apostrophe

county directly governed by province (usu. as emergency arrangement)

儉省

jiǎn shěng

thrifty; sparing; economical

(the) whole province

default (setting)

saving; to save; to use sparingly; to cut down on

province (old)

sub-provincial (not provincial status, but independent)

外務省

wài wù shěng

foreign ministry (e.g. of Japan or Korea)

本省人

běn shěng rén

people of this province; (in Taiwan) Han Chinese people other than those who moved to Taiwan from mainland China after 1945 and their descendants

rubicene (chemistry)

major agricultural province

副省級城市

fù shěng jí chéng shì

subprovincial city (having independent economic status within a province)

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