州
Pinyin: zhōu
prefecture; state (e.g. of US); oblast (Russia); canton (Switzerland)
Example sentence
死刑在美国的很多州都被废除了。
Sǐxíng zài Měiguó de hěn duō zhōu dōu bèi fèichú le.
The death penalty had been done away with in many states in the USA.
What 州 means
州 (zhōu) is a Chinese word meaning “prefecture; state (e.g. of US); oblast (Russia); canton (Switzerland)”. It appears in the HSK 6 collection.
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