洲 (zhōu)
continent; island in a river
How 洲 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Traditional
- 洲
- Simplified
- 洲 (unchanged)
Components
- 氵 water
- 州 N/A
Common words using 洲
- 亞洲 yàzhōu
- Asia; Asian
- 歐洲 ōuzhōu
- Europe; European
- 澳洲 àozhōu
- Australia (continent); abbr. for 澳大利亞|澳大利亚
- 非洲 fēizhōu
- Africa
- 三角洲 sānjiǎozhōu
- delta (geography)
- 五洲 wǔzhōu
- five continents; the world
- 大洲 dàzhōu
- continent
- 株洲 zhūzhōu
- Zhuzhou prefecture level city, on the Xiangjiang river in Hunan
- 歐洲人 ōuzhōurén
- European (person)
- 歐洲杯 ōuzhōubēi
- European cup (e.g. soccer)
- 沙洲 shāzhōu
- sandbank; sandbar
- 洲際 zhōujì
- intercontinental
洲 in a sentence
亞洲是世界上最大的洲。
Yàzhōu shì shìjiè shàng zuìdà de zhōu.
“Asia is the largest continent in the world.”
How common is 洲?
洲 is the 700th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 82.8% of all running text.
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