Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
continent, sandbar, island, country
Kun:
しま
On:
シュウ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1
1979 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 州 【シュウ】 state (of the US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.), province (e.g. of Canada), county (e.g. of the UK), region (e.g. of Italy), canton, oblast, continent, province (of Japan), province (of ancient China), prefecture, department, dear
  • 大州 【タイシュウ】 continent
  • 六大州 【ロクダイシュウ】 the six continents, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe and Australia
  • 州 【ス】 sandbank, sandbar
  • 洲浜 【スハマ】 sandy beach, sandbar that projects into the ocean, particularly in a wavy form, designs and objects with a wavy pattern, sweet mochi cake
  • 白州 【シラス】 white sandbar, white sandbank, area in a garden or entrance of a house laid with white sand or pebbles, gravel separating a noh stage from the audience, court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand
  • 中州 【ナカス】 sandbank (in a river), sandbar

Kun reading compounds

  • 秋津島 【あきつしま】 Japan, Yamato Province
  • 八洲 【やしま】 Japan

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhou1
Korean:
ju

Spanish

  • banco de arena
  • continente

Portuguese

French

2539 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
820 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2138 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
467 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
291 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
352 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
17413 Morohashi
391 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3120 New Nelson (John Haig)
2289 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2386 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1178 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3a6.10 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-6 SKIP code
3210.0 Four corner code
1-29-07 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6d32 Unicode hex code