特别行政区
Traditional form:
特別行政區
Pinyin (reading):
tèbiéxíngzhèngqū
Definitions:
- special administrative region (SAR), of which there are two in the PRC: Hong Kong 香港 and Macau 澳門／澳门
- refers to many different areas during late Qing, foreign occupation, warlord period and Nationalist government
- refers to special zones in North Korea and Indonesia
Characters:
- 特 - special, unique, distinguished
- 别 - to separate, to distinguish, to classify; to leave; other; do not, must not
- 行 - to go, to walk, to move; professional
- 政 - government, politics
- 区 - area, district, region, ward; surname
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