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xiàn

HSK 4 · word 2965 of 3,000

Meaning

Example sentence

日本有多少个县?

rì běn yǒu duō shǎo gè xiàn

How many prefectures are there in Japan?

The character 县

is a county, the rung below a and above a village. 县城 is the county town and 县长 the one who runs it — a unit that has been on Chinese maps for two thousand years.

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