州

See also: 川 and 洲

Translingual

Han character

1. (same as 洲) continent, large island, islet
2. administrative division, state

Descendants

• ツ

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 324, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8678
• Dae Jaweon: page 624, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 46, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5DDE

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Cantonese

Hanzi

州 (Jyutping zau1, Yale jau1)

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Japanese

Kanji

州

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅう (shū), す (su)
• Kun: す (su), しま (shima)

Noun

州(しゅう) • (shū) 

1. state (political entity)

州(す) • (su) 

1. sandbank

Compounds

• 自治州 (じちしゅう, jichishū)
• 道州制 (どうしゅうせい, dōshūsei)
• 九州 (きゅうしゅう, kyūshū)
• 本州 (ほんしゅう, honshū)

• 欧州 (おうしゅう, ōshū)
• 豪州 (ごうしゅう, gōshū)
• 備州 (びしゅう, bishū)
• 満州 (まんしゅう, manshū)

• 長州 (ちょうしゅう, chōshū)
• 奥州 (おうしゅう, ōshū)
• 座州 (ざす, zasu)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

州 (Pinyin zhōu (zhou1), Wade-Giles chou¹)

1. prefecture
2. state (e.g., of the United States)
3. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) province
4. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) administrative division

Compounds

• 潮州 (Chaozhou)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

州 (*jiou)

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Min Nan

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 州 (châu, chu)

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