島 (dǎo)

Island

How 島 is written

Strokes
10
Radical
一 — one
Traditional
島
Simplified
岛

Components

Common words using 島

列島 lièdǎo
archipelago; chain of islands
半島 bàndǎo
peninsula; Al Jazeera (Arabic-language news network)
島嶼 dǎoyǔ
island
巴厘島 bālídǎo
Bali (island in Indonesia)
青島 qīngdǎo
Qingdao, subprovincial city in Shandong
仙島 xiāndǎo
island of the immortals
冰島 bīngdǎo
Iceland
北島 běidǎo
Bei Dao (Chinese poet)
千島湖 qiāndǎohú
Qiandao Lake
南島 nándǎo
South Island
吉之島 jízhīdǎo
JUSCO, Japanese chain of hypermarkets
孤島 gūdǎo
isolated region

島 in a sentence

台灣是一個美麗的寶島。

Táiwān shì yī gè měilì de bǎodǎo.

“Taiwan is a beautiful treasured island.”

How common is 島?

島 is the 796th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 85.2% of all running text.

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