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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Cantonese

Hanzi

洲 (jyutping zau1, Yale jau1)

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Japanese

Kanji

洲

Readings

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

洲 (pinyin zhōu (zhou1), Wade-Giles chou¹)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

洲 (ćǝw, *jiou)

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Vietnamese

Han character

洲 (châu, chao)

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