zhōu
state, province, islet
Depicts an area of dry land in the middle of a river.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
zhōu
administrative division, state; prefecture; (old) province; (old) administrative division; state (e.g. of US); oblast (Russia); canton (Switzerland)
Most common words with 州
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
prefecture | ||
Canton | ||
California | ||
Hangzhou subprovincial city and capital of Zhejiang province in southeast China | ||
US state governor |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tu | tsyuw | zhōu | islet in stream; province |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 38.7154% of movies
826th most common character in movies
721st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+5DDE |
Shuowen | “州，水中可居曰州。周遶其旁，从重川。昔堯遭洪水，民居水中高土，或曰九州。《詩》曰：‘在河之州’。一曰：州，疇也。各疇其土而生之。，古文州。” |
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