洲
Meanings
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- 1.continent
- 2.island in a river
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Wiktionary
- 1.islet in a river
- 2.continent
- 3.a surname, Zhou
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *tju): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 州 (OC *tju). Unknown. According to the Erya and the Shiming, the following characters show some notable semantic relations (Schuessler, 2007) : 渚 (OC *tjaʔ, “islet”) is smaller than 洲 (OC *tju) : 沚 (OC *kjɯʔ, “islet”) is smaller than 渚 (OC *tjaʔ) : 坻 (OC *tiːlʔ, *tjelʔ, *dil, “islet”) is smaller than 沚 (OC *kjɯʔ)
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
湯姆是歐洲人。
Tom is European.
你去過歐洲幾次？
How many times have you been to Europe?
他們經常去歐洲。
They make frequent trips to Europe.
我下週要去歐洲。
I'm going to Europe next week.
他去歐洲旅行了。
He took a trip to Europe.
你曾多常去過歐洲？
How often have you been to Europe?
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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