海南州 hǎinánzhōu Hainan Prefecture Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 海南 hǎinán Hainan Hainan province in South China; short for 海南省 hǎinánshěng or 海南岛 hǎinándǎo州 zhōu proper noun prefecture An administrative division in China, including modern autonomous prefectures (自治州 zìzhìzhōu) and historical units whose names survive in city names like 苏州 sūzhōu