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

• 嶼

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

trad.		島
simp.		岛
alt. forms		嶋 嶌

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tuːwʔ): phonetic 鳥 ‎(OC *tɯːwʔ) + semantic 山 ‎(“mountain”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎo (dao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dou²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tó
• Min Dong (BUC): dō̤
• Min Nan (POJ): tó / tó͘
• Wu (Wiktionary): tau (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: dǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄠˇ
    • Wade-Giles: tao³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dao
    • IPA ^(key): /tɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dou²
    • Yale: dóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dou²
    • IPA ^(key): /tou̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tó
    • Hakka Romanization System: do`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: do³
    • IPA: /to³¹/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dō̤
    • IPA ^(key): /to³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Kinmen, Taichung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tó
    • Tâi-lô: tó
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doir
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tɤ⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɤ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɤ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Hsinchu, Yilan, Magong, Lukang, Sanxia)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tó͘
    • Tâi-lô: tóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dor
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tɔ⁵³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: tau (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /tɔ³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /tɑu^X/▼

Rime
Character	島
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	都晧切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tɑuX/
Pan Wuyun	/tɑuX/
Shao Rongfen	/tɑuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tawX/
Li Rong	/tɑuX/
Wang Li	/tɑuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/tɑuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dǎo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*tˤuʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tuːwʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	島
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ tawX ›
Old Chinese	/*tˤuʔ/
English	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	島
Reading #	1/1
No.	9507
Phonetic component	鳥
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	倒
Old Chinese	/*tuːwʔ/

Noun

島

1. island

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Japanese

Kanji

島

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: とう (tō)
• Kan’on: とう (tō)
• Kun: しま (shima)
• Nanori: しま (shima)

Compounds

• 群島 (ぐんとう) ‎(guntō)
• 島影 (しまかげ) ‎(shimakage)
• 島嶼 (とうしょ) ‎(tōsho)
• 列島 (れっとう) ‎(rettō)
• 宝島 (たからじま) ‎(takarajima)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
島
しま Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) しま​ [shìmáꜜ] (Odaka - [o])
• IPA^(key): [ɕima̠]

Noun

島 ‎(hiragana しま, romaji shima)

1. island

Proper noun

島 ‎(hiragana しま, romaji Shima)

1. A surname​.

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
島
とう Grade: 3
on'yomi

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)

1. island

Compounds

• 半島 ‎(bán đảo)

Usage notes

• Chữ Nôm. The modern Vietnamese word for island is đảo.

References

• www.chunom.org