| 临夏回族自治州 |
Lín xià Huí zú Zì zhì zhōu |
Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, in Gansu Province 甘肃省 |
| 临 |
lín |
to face / to overlook / to arrive / to be (just) about to / just before |
| 临夏 |
Lín xià |
see 临夏回族自治州 / see 临夏市 / see 临夏县 |
| 夏 |
Xià |
the Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC / Xia of the Sixteen Kingdoms (407-432) / surname Xia |
| 夏 |
xià |
summer |
| 回 |
huí |
to circle / to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return / to revolve / Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) / time / classifier for acts of a play / section or chapter (of a classic book) |
| 回 |
huí |
to curve / to return / to revolve |
| 回 |
huí |
variant of 回 |
| 回族 |
Huí zú |
Hui Islamic ethnic group living across China |
| 族 |
zú |
race / nationality / ethnicity / clan / by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族) |
| 自 |
zì |
(bound form) self; oneself / from; since / naturally; as a matter of course |
| 自治 |
zì zhì |
autonomy |
| 自治州 |
zì zhì zhōu |
autonomous prefecture |
| 治 |
zhì |
to rule / to govern / to manage / to control / to harness (a river) / to treat (a disease) / to wipe out (a pest) / to punish / to research |
| 州 |
zhōu |
prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland) |