州
zhōu

state, province, islet

州 zhōu
state noun
A first-level administrative division of a country, such as a US state, Swiss canton, or Russian oblast

澳大利亚有六个州。

ào​dà​lì​yà yǒu liù ge zhōu.

Australia has six states.

prefecture proper noun
An administrative division in China, including modern autonomous prefectures (自治州 zì​zhì​zhōu) and historical units whose names survive in city names like 苏州 sū​zhōu
islet
(old variant) An island or islet in a river; same as 洲 zhōu.
firm
(literary) To be firm or stable; to live together in a settled manner that is secure and steady.
surname
A Chinese surname

Cross-References

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Frequency
Character
Written text
721st most common 266.3 per million
Movie subtitles
826th most common 149.4 per million appears in 39% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
63.1 per million appears in 18% of films
Written text
48.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+5DDE

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)