州

See also 川, and 洲

Translingual

Han character

州 (radical 47 巛+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈中戈中 (ILIL), four-corner 3200₀)

1. continent, large island, islet, same as 洲
2. administrative division, state

Descendants

• ツ

References

• KangXi: page 324, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8678
• Dae Jaweon: page 624, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 46, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5DDE

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Cantonese

Hanzi

州 (jyutping zau1, Yale jau1)

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Japanese

Kanji

州 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しゅう (shū), す (su)
• Kun: す (su), しま (shima)

Noun

州 (hiragana しゅう, romaji shū)

1. state (political entity)

州 (hiragana す, romaji su)

1. sandbank

Compounds

自治州 (じちしゅう, jichishū) 道州制 (どうしゅうせい, dōshūsei) 九州 (きゅうしゅう, kyūshū) 本州 (ほんしゅう, honshū)

欧州 (おうしゅう, ōshū) 豪州 (ごうしゅう, gōshū) 備州 (びしゅう, bishū) 満州 (まんしゅう, manshū)

長州 (ちょうしゅう, chōshū) 奥州 (おうしゅう, ōshū) 座州 (ざす, zasu)

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Korean

Hanja

州 (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune-Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

州 (pinyin zhōu (zhou1), Wade-Giles chou¹)

1. prefecture
2. state (e.g., of the United States)
3. (archaic) province
4. (archaic) administrative division

Compounds

• 潮州 (Chaozhou)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

州 (*jiou)

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Vietnamese

Han character

州 (châu, chu)