洲

Information about character(s)

Radical: 水
Radical Strokes: 4
Additional Strokes: 6
Total Strokes: 9

Pronunciation

Pinyin: zhōu
Cantonese: zau1
JapaneseKun: SHIMA
JapaneseOn: SHUU
Korean: CWU
Vietnamese: chòng chao

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: continent; island; islet

CE-Dict: continent/island

Soothill: An islet; a continent.

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.a continent
2.a large area seen as comparable to a continent as in the case of Oceania making the Chinese adage of the "six great zhou" untranslatable
3.an islet or sand bar in a river

21 Century bidirectional science and technology dictionary: continent - 地理

朗道漢英字典 - Lang Dao: continent

懶蟲簡明漢英詞典: continent

康熙字典文字版 【巳集上】【水字部】洲
【廣韻】【正韻】職流切【集韻】【韻會】之由切，𠀤音周。【說文】水渚也。【爾雅·釋水】水中可居曰洲。又【釋名】聚也。人及鳥物所聚息之處也。【詩·周南】在河之洲。　又靈洲，漢縣名，屬北地郡。　又【韻補】叶專於切，音朱。【劉楨·魯都賦】素秋二七，天漢指隅。緹帷彌津，丹帳覆洲。　【說文】本作州，後人加水以別州縣字。

Japanese-English River and Water Resources Glossary shoal

CF-Dict: continent/région/îlot

Han-De-Dict: Insel (S)/Inselchen (S)/Kontinent (S)