Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
mountain
Parts:
Variants:
island
Kun:
しま
On:
トウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N2
245 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 島 【トウ】 Island, insula, island, islet
  • 島国 【シマグニ】 island country
  • 千島列島 【チシマレットウ】 Kurile Islands
  • 列島 【レットウ】 archipelago, chain of islands

Kun reading compounds

  • 島 【しま】 island, one's territory (of a sex worker, organized crime gang, etc.), one's turf
  • 島国 【しまぐに】 island country
  • 千島 【ちしま】 Kurile Islands
  • 広島 【ひろしま】 Hiroshima (city, prefecture)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
dao3
Korean:
do

Spanish

  • isla

Portuguese

  • ilha

French

  • île
292 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
380 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
358 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
173 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
230 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
183 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
489 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1522 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
286 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
286 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
455 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
543 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4103 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2081 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2820 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1967 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
8108 Morohashi
3310 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1476 New Nelson (John Haig)
1948 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2098 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
379 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
362 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
852 2001 Kanji
3o7.9 The Kanji Dictionary
3-7-3 SKIP code
4-10-4 SKIP code
2772.7 Four corner code
1-37-71 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5cf6 Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 梟悪 【キョウアク】 great treachery, very atrocious person
  • 梟罪 【キョウザイ】 penalty of decapitation and exposure of the severed head

Kun reading compounds

  • 梟 【ふくろう】 owl (esp. the Ural owl, Strix uralensis)
  • 梟鸚鵡 【ふくろうおうむ】 kakapo (Strigops habroptila), owl parrot
  • 尾長梟 【おながふくろう】 northern hawk owl (Surnia ulula)
  • 樺太梟 【からふとふくろう】 great grey owl (Strix nebulosa)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xiao1
Korean:
hyo

Spanish

Portuguese

French

235 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
14861 Morohashi
2703 New Nelson (John Haig)
2837 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2852 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4a7.28 The Kanji Dictionary
2-7-4 SKIP code
2790.4 Four corner code
1-59-70 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
689f Unicode hex code