下辖

下轄

xiàxiá

verb

Meanings

1 to administer
2 to have jurisdiction over
3 (of an administrative unit) to comprise / consist of

Characters

to govern, to have jurisdiction

Examples

广东省下辖二十一个地级市。

Guǎngdōng Shěng xiàxiá èrshíyī gè dìjí shì.

Guangdong Province administers twenty-one prefecture-level cities.

该集团下辖五家子公司。

Gāi jítuán xiàxiá wǔ jiā zǐgōngsī.

The group consists of five subsidiary companies.

Tips

register

Almost exclusively used in formal/administrative writing — encyclopedia entries, government documents, corporate structure descriptions. In speech you would say 管 (guǎn) or 下面有 (xiàmiàn yǒu).

Stroke Order

下 xià

辖 xiá