州

See also: 川 and 洲

Translingual

Han character

州 (radical 47 巛+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈中戈中 (ILIL), four-corner 3200₀)

1. (same as 洲) continent, large island, islet
2. administrative division, state

Descendants

• ツ

References

• KangXi: page 324, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8678
• Dae Jaweon: page 624, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 46, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5DDE

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Chinese

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhōu (zhou¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zau¹
• Min Nan (POJ): chiu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄡ
    • Wade-Giles: chou¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jou
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zau¹
    • Yale: jāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiu
    • Tâi-lô: tsiu
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiu³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (州, reconstructed)
Character (州), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 章 (23) Final: 尤 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 職流切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡ɕɨu/	/t͡ɕi̯ə̯u/	/t͡ɕiu/	/t͡ɕiu/	/cuw/	/t͡ɕĭəu/	/t͡ɕiəu/

Old Chinese pronunciation (州, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
州								zhōu								‹ tsyuw ›								/*tu/								islet in stream; province
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
州					17493					州					幽					1					周					/*tju/

Noun

州

1. prefecture
2. state (e.g., of the United States)
3. (archaic) province
4. (archaic) administrative division

See also

• 省份 (shěngfèn)
• 省 (shěng)
• 縣, 县 (xiàn, “Japanese prefecture”)

Compounds

• 潮州 (Chaozhou)

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Japanese

Kanji

州

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: す (su)
• Kan’on: しゅう (shū)
• Kun: す (su), しま (shima)

Noun

州 (hiragana しゅう, romaji shū)

1. state (political entity)

州 (hiragana す, romaji su)

1. sandbank

Compounds

自治州 (じちしゅう, jichishū) 道州制 (どうしゅうせい, dōshūsei) 九州 (きゅうしゅう, kyūshū) 本州 (ほんしゅう, honshū)

欧州 (おうしゅう, ōshū) 豪州 (ごうしゅう, gōshū) 備州 (びしゅう, bishū) 満州 (まんしゅう, manshū)

長州 (ちょうしゅう, chōshū) 奥州 (おうしゅう, ōshū) 座州 (ざす, zasu)

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Korean

Hanja

州 (ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune-Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

州 (châu, chu)

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