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Mythic Mandarin

省 (shěng): meaning and stroke order

省 (shěng) means to save; to economize; to be frugal, to omit; to delete; to leave out, province.

省

Simplified
省
Traditional
省 (same form)
Pinyin
shěng · xǐng

Stroke order of 省

省

  • shěng to save; to economize; to be frugal; to omit; to delete; to leave out
  • xǐng (bound form) to scrutinize; (bound form) to reflect (on one's conduct)
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 省

  1. shěng
    • to save; to economize; to be frugal
    • to omit; to delete; to leave out
    • province
    • provincial capital
    • a ministry (of the Japanese government)
  2. xǐng
    • (bound form) to scrutinize
    • (bound form) to reflect (on one's conduct)
    • (bound form) to come to realize
    • (bound form) to pay a visit (to one's parents or elders)

Radical and structure

省
Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 9 strokes · 少 on top, 目 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 省

省 in our stories

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  • 真相终于清楚了：老板为了省钱不修船，船出了事，就编出一场“风浪”，把责任全部推到了船长身上。

    zhēnxiàng zhōngyú qīngchu le lǎobǎn wèile shěng qián bù xiū chuán chuán chū le shì jiù biān chū yì cháng fēnglàng bǎ zérèn quánbù tuī dào le chuánzhǎng shēnshang

    The truth was finally clear: to save money, the owner hadn't repaired the ship; when it sank he invented a "storm" and pushed all the blame onto the captain.

    From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 省

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).