島

See also: 岛, 嶋, 嶌, and 嶹

Translingual

Han character

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

See also

• 嶋
• 嶌
• 嶼
• 屿
• 岛

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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Chinese

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trad.		島
simp.		岛

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 鳥 + semantic 山 (“mountain”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎo (dao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dou²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): táu
• Min Nan (POJ): tó
• Wu (WT Romanisation): tau (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: dǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄠˇ
    • Wade-Giles: tao³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dao
    • IPA ^(key): /tɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dou²
    • Yale: dóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dou²
    • IPA ^(key): /tou̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: táu
    • Guangdong: tau³, to³ [Hailu, Siyan, Meixian]
    • Hagfa Pinyim: dau3
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tó
    • Tâi-lô: tó
    • IPA (Taipei): /tə⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tə⁵³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: tau (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /tɔ³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (島, reconstructed)
Character (島), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 端 (5) Final: 豪 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 都晧切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/tɑuX/	/tɑuX/	/tɑuX/	/tɑuX/	/tawX/	/tɑuX/	/tɑuX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (島, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
島								dǎo								‹ tawX ›								/*tˤuʔ/								island
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
島					9507					鳥					幽					2					倒					/*tuːwʔ/

Noun

島

1. island

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Japanese

Kanji

島

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: とう (tō)
• Kun: しま (shima)

Compounds

• 群島 (ぐんとう, guntō)
• 島影
• 島嶼 (とうしょ, tōsho)
• 列島 (れっとう, rettō)

Noun

島 (hiragana しま, romaji shima)

1. island

Proper noun

島 (hiragana しま, romaji Shima)

1. A surname​.

Suffix

島 (hiragana とう, romaji -tō)

1. island (in place names)

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Korean

Hanja

島 (do)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 도 (McCune-Reischauer: to)

• Name (hangeul): 섬()

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Vietnamese

Han character

島 (đảo, láo)

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