島

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See also: 岛, 嶋, 嶌, and 嶹
島 U+5CF6, 島
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5CF6
← 峵
[U+5CF5] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 峷 →
[U+5CF7]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

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

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • 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

Chinese[edit]

trad. 島
simp. 岛
variant forms 㠀
嶋
嶌

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 島
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
島-seal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (鳥) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
島 *tuːwʔ
搗 *taːwʔ
鵃 *rtɯːw, *rtɯːw, *tjiw
瞗 *tɯːw
鳥 *tɯːwʔ
蔦 *tɯːwʔ, *tɯːws
窵 *tɯːws

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

Etymology[edit]

Reminiscent of Mon လ္ကံ (from Proto-Mon-Khmer *tkɔɔʔ), but probably not related (Schuessler, 2007).

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation[edit]

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
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/

Definitions[edit]

島

  1. island

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 島

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

島

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Kanji in this term
島
しま
Grade: 3
kun’yomi
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Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

島 (hiragana しま, rōmaji shima)

  1. an island

Proper noun[edit]

島 (hiragana しま, rōmaji Shima)

  1. A surname​.

Etymology 2[edit]

Kanji in this term
島
とう
Grade: 3
on’yomi
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Suffix[edit]

島 (hiragana とう, rōmaji -tō)

  1. island (in place names)

References[edit]

  1. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

島 (eumhun 섬 도 (seom do))

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

島 (đảo, láo)

  1. island

Compounds[edit]

Usage notes[edit]

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

References[edit]

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