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島

JLPT N2 SL3 10 strokes Frequency: #245

Meanings

Island

Radicals

山

Decomposition

⿹烏山

Etymology

Ideographic: A bird 烏 perched atop a mountain 山

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 10

Stroke Order

1 diagonal right-to-left

2 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

3 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

4 horizontal bottom-to-top

5 horizontal bottom-to-top

6 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

7 hook bottom-to-top

8 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

9 corner bottom-to-top

10 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

トウ tou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

しま shima

Words Using This Kanji

249 words total

Other (20 words)

Tahiti

Tahitian

insular cortex

Okinawan pig breed

Okinawan-style tofu

mythical island inhabited only by women

来島らいとう

arriving on an island

ソロモン諸島ソロモンしょとう

Solomon Islands

人工島じんこうとう

artificial island

延坪島砲撃事件ヨンピョンドほうげきじけん

Bombardment of Yeonpyeong (November 23, 2010)

広島型原爆ひろしまがたげんばく

Hiroshima-type A-bomb

八十島やそしま

many islands

陸島りくとう

continental island

琉球列島米国民政府りゅうきゅうれっとうべいこくみんせいふ

United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands (1950-1972)

島津侵入事件しまづしんにゅうじけん

Invasion of Ryukyu (by the Satsuma-based Shimazu clan; 1609)

琉球列島米国軍政府りゅうきゅうれっとうべいこくぐんせいふ

United States Military Government of the Ryukyu Islands (1945-1950)

島外とうがい

off an island

千島風露ちしまふうろ

woolly geranium (Geranium erianthum)

島宇宙しまうちゅう

galaxy

半島系はんとうけい

Korean living in Japan

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