| 威宁彝族回族苗族自治县 |
Wēi níng Yí zú Huí zú Miáo zú Zì zhì xiàn |
Weining Yi, Hui, and Miao Autonomous County, in Bijie City 毕节市, Guizhou |
| 威 |
wēi |
power / might / prestige |
| 威宁 |
Wēi níng |
see 威宁彝族回族苗族自治县 |
| 宁 |
nìng |
old variant of 宁 |
| 宁 |
Níng |
abbr. for Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 宁夏回族自治区 / abbr. for Nanjing 南京 / surname Ning |
| 宁 |
níng |
peaceful / to pacify / to visit (one's parents etc) |
| 宁 |
nìng |
would rather / to prefer / how (emphatic) / Taiwan pr. [ning2] |
| 宁 |
níng |
variant of 宁 |
| 彝 |
Yí |
Yi ethnic group |
| 彝 |
yí |
(archaic) wine vessel / (archaic) sacrificial vessel / (literary) rule; convention |
| 彝族 |
Yí zú |
Yi ethnic group |
| 族 |
zú |
race / nationality / ethnicity / clan / by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族) |
| 回 |
Huí |
Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) |
| 回 |
huí |
to go back; to return; to turn back; to turn around / to reply; to answer / classifier for literary divisions (acts of a play, sections or chapters of a classic book) / classifier for occurrences or times |
| 回 |
huí |
to curve / to return / to revolve |
| 回 |
huí |
variant of 回 |
| 回族 |
Huí zú |
Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) |
| 族 |
zú |
race / nationality / ethnicity / clan / by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族) |
| 苗 |
Miáo |
surname Miao / Miao ethnic group |
| 苗 |
miáo |
young plant; seedling / (bound form) young animal raised for farming or aquaculture (e.g. 鱼苗) / (bound form) offspring; descendant / (bound form) sign or indication of sth (e.g. 苗头, 矿苗) / (bound form) vaccine |
| 苗族 |
Miáo zú |
Miao ethnic group |
| 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 |
| 自治县 |
zì zhì xiàn |
autonomous county |
| 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 |
| 县 |
xiàn |
county / (Japan) prefecture |