島

See also 岛, 嶋, 嶌, and 嶹

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 鳥 + 山: a bird 鳥 flying over a mountain 山.

Han character

島 (radical 46 山+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹日卜山 (HAYU), four-corner 2772₇)

1. island

References

• KangXi: page 312, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8108
• Dae Jaweon: page 612, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 775, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5CF6

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Cantonese

Hanzi

島 (simplified 岛, jyutping dou2, Yale dou2)

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Hakka

Hanzi

島 (POJ táu, Guangdong tau³, to³ [Hailu, Siyan, Meixian]; tau³, Hagfa Pinyim dau3)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

島 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. island

Readings

• On: とう (tō)
• Kun: しま (shima) じま (jima)

Compounds

• 島影
• 島嶼

Proper noun

島 (hiragana しま, romaji Shima)

1. A surname.

Suffix

島 (hiragana とう, romaji -tō)

1. island (in place names)

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Korean

Hanja

島
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 도 (revised: do, McCune-Reischauer: to)

• Name (hangeul): 섬()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

島 (simplified 岛, pinyin dǎo (dao3), Wade-Giles tao³)

Compounds

• 靑島

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Middle Chinese

Han character

島 (*dɑ̌u)

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Min Nan

Han character

島 (tó)

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Vietnamese

Han character

島 (đảo, láo)

1. island