島

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

A bird 鳥 flying over a mountain 山 signifies the meaning of Island.

[edit] Han character

島 (radical 46 山+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹日卜山 (HAYU), four-corner 2772₇)

1. island

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 312, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8108
• Dae Jaweon: page 612, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 775, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5CF6

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

島 (jyutping dou2, Yale dou2)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

島 (grade 3 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: とう (tō)
• Kun: しま (shima) じま (jima)

[edit] Compounds

• 島影
• 島嶼

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

島
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 도 (revised: do, McCune-Reischauer: to)

• Name (hangeul): 섬()

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

島 (simplified 岛, pinyin dǎo (dao3), Wade-Giles tao³)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

島 (đảo, láo)

1. island