HSK 5 · Places

县 xiàn “county” in Chinese

Traditional 縣

What 县 means

  1. county
  2. (Japan) prefecture

How to say 县

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale县xiàn4th tone, falling

县 in a sentence

  1. 日本有多少个县？

    Rìběn yǒu duōshǎo ge xiàn?

    How many prefectures are there in Japan?

    Sentence #769616 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 弗罗里达有几个县？

    Fúluólǐdá yǒu jǐ ge xiàn?

    How many counties are there in Florida?

    Sentence #14037692 from Tatoeba

How 县 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 县 (xiàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
县xiàncounty
  • 且moreover · qiě
  • 厶private · sī

How to write 县

县 7 strokes

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县 (xiàn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 县 (xiàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 县

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FAQs

县 (xiàn) means “county” or “(Japan) prefecture”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it xiàn: xiàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 县 is written 縣. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 县 from the suggestions. Typing xian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
县 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.