州 — Chinese character
州
zhōu
state, province, prefecture
- Pinyin
- zhōu
- Radical
- 47 ⼮ (River)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 川
- Formation
- ideographic — Islands within a river 川
- Japanese
- 州 as a kanji
Common words with 州
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 州长 (州長) | zhōu zhǎng | governor (of a province or colony); (US) state governor |
| 自治州 | zì zhì zhōu | autonomous prefecture |
| 州立 | zhōu lì | state-run |
| 州界 | zhōu jiè | state border; state line |
| 副州长 (副州長) | fù zhōu zhǎng | deputy governor (of a province or colony); lieutenant governor of US state |
| 州伯 | zhōu bó | governor (of a province); provincial chief (old) |
| 摇摆州 (搖擺州) | yáo bǎi zhōu | swing state (US politics) |
| 知州 | zhī zhōu | senior provincial government official in dynastic China |
| 联邦州 (聯邦州) | lián bāng zhōu | federal state; German Bundesland |
English words written with 州
州 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Mencius 5 · Zhuangzi 9
- Analects 15.5
- Mencius 3B.6
- Mencius 5A.3
- Zhuangzi Opening Trunks
- Zhuangzi On Letting Alone
- Zhuangzi Autumn Floods
- Zhuangzi The Secret of Life
- Zhuangzi On Declining Power
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.