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租界

zū jiè

2-character word

What 租界 means

1. foreign concession, an enclave occupied by a foreign power (in China in the 19th and 20th centuries)

The characters in 租界

• 租zūto hire; to rent; to charter
• 界jiè(bound form) boundary; border; (bound form) realm

Sounds the same

Read zū jiè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 租借to rent; to lease

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zū jiè correctly.
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