洲

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

洲 (radical 85 水+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水戈中中 (EILL), four-corner 3210₀, composition ⿰氵州)

1. continent
2. island
3. islet

References

• KangXi: page 622, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17413
• Dae Jaweon: page 1018, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1616, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6D32

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		洲

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 (洲, reconstructed)
Character (洲), 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 (洲, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
洲								zhōu								‹ tsyuw ›								/*tu/								islet
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
洲					17492					州					幽					1					周					/*tju/

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Japanese

Kanji

洲

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

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

Compounds

• 欧洲
• 五大洲
• 濠洲 (ごうしゅう, Gōshū)
• 砂洲
• 坐洲, 座洲
• 三角洲
• 川洲
• 大八洲
• 大八洲国
• 中洲
• 白洲
• 八洲
• 八洲国
• 満洲

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

洲 (châu, chao)

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Readings

• Nôm: chao, châu

References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville