| 寻甸回族彝族自治县 |
Xún diàn Huí zú Yí zú Zì zhì xiàn |
Xundian Hui and Yi Autonomous County, in Kunming City 昆明市, Yunnan |
| 寻 |
xún |
to search / to look for / to seek |
| 寻甸 |
Xún diàn |
see 寻甸回族彝族自治县 |
| 甸 |
Diàn |
surname Dian |
| 甸 |
diàn |
suburbs or outskirts / one of the five degrees of official mourning attire in dynastic China / official in charge of fields (old) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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 |