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洲

洲 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. 島。水で囲まれたしま
  2. 大陸

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「水」+音符「州 /*TU/」。｛洲 /*tu/｝を表す字。もと「州」が｛洲｝を表す字であったが、水を加え、水で囲まれたしまを指す。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

continent, sandbar, island, country

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • シュウ
  • ス
Kun (native)
  • しま
Other languages
  • 拼音zhou1
  • 한글ju
  • Hán-ViệtChâu

Basics

Strokes
9 strokes
Radical
水(みず)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+6D32

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰氵州

Words using this kanji

  • 洲ひじmid-ocean sandbank
  • 洲走すばしりyoung striped mullet
  • 洲浜すはまsandy beach, sandbar that projects into the ocean, particularly in a wavy form, designs and objects with a wavy pattern, sweet mochi cake

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(12 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-6
Four Corner
3210.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3a6.10
Heisig
2386
Nelson
2539