zhōu

continent

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

州 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

zhōu

  

state, province, islet

Definitions

 

zhōu

continent; island; islet; island in a river

Most common words with 洲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

欧洲

Europe

非洲

Africa

亚洲

Asia

continent

澳洲

Australia

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tu

tsyuw

zhōu

islet


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 24.1871% of movies

1190th most common character in movies

701st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6D32


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