密蘇里州

Missouri

secret / confidential / close / thick / dense

surname Su / abbr. for Soviet Union 蘇維埃|苏维埃 or 蘇聯|苏联 / abbr. for Jiangsu province 江蘇|江苏 / abbr. for Suzhou city 蘇州|苏州

Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil) / place name / to revive / used as phonetic in transliteration

Missouri

variant of 裡|里[li3]

lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]

li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels

prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland)