See prefecture on Wiktionary
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"sense": "The office of a prefect",
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"code": "ru",
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"english": "historical Chinese commanderies",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jùn",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "郡"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "地區"
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"code": "cmn",
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"note": "of modern Chinese prefectures",
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"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "都道府縣"
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"code": "cmn",
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"note": "of Japanese prefectures",
"roman": "dūdàofǔxiàn",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "都道府县"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shěng",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "省"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "縣"
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"english": "small prefectures in other countries",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiàn",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "县"
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"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"tags": [
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"word": "prefectuur"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "prefektuuri"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"tags": [
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"word": "préfecture"
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"code": "gag",
"lang": "Gagauz",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "valilik"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"tags": [
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"word": "Präfektur"
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{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "מחוז"
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"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "prefektur"
},
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"alt": "けん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ken",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "県"
},
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"alt": "ふ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "fu",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "府"
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"alt": "とどうふけん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"note": "of Japanese prefectures",
"roman": "to-dō-fu-ken",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "都道府県"
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"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "aa naa kʰaet",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "អាណាខេត្ត"
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"alt": "縣",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "hyeon",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "현"
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"alt": "都道府縣",
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"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "도도부현"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"tags": [
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"word": "praefectūra"
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"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"tags": [
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"word": "prefektūra"
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{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
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"word": "prefektur"
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"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"tags": [
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"word": "prefektur"
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{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "tevliye",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "تولیه"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "mütevellîlik",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "متولّیلك"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "riyâset",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "ریاست"
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"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "sandjâq",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "سنجاق"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "prefektura"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"tags": [
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"word": "prefeitura"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "prefectură"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prefektúra",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "префекту́ра"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
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"word": "prefectura"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
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"word": "prefektur"
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{
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "wilayet",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "ۋىلايەت"
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"alt": "省",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "The district governed by a prefect",
"word": "tỉnh"
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"commandery (China)",
"fu (country subdivision)",
"prefecture (China)",
"zhou (administrative subdivision)"
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}
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