州
州 in English
- prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland)
Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 16 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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一个从俄勒冈州来的朋友，布朗先生明天会来拜访我们。
Mr. Brown a friend from Oregon, will visit us tomorrow.
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一场毁灭性的地震袭击了这个州的首府。
A devastating earthquake hit the state capital.
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他从杭州来。
He comes from Hangzhou.
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他太太来自于加利福尼亚州。
His wife comes from California.
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伯拉罕·林肯，美国第16任总统，生于肯塔基州的一个简陋的小屋里。
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a log cabin in Kentucky.
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你去过九州吗？
Have you ever been to Kyushu?
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加利福尼亚州和內华达州相互接界。
California and Nevada border on each other.
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堪萨斯州刚好位於美国的中央。
Kansas is smack dab in the middle of the US.