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Kanji Detail for 州 - "state, sandbar, continent"

州

  • Meaning

    州 means "state, sandbar, continent."

    1. State - A province; a region.

    2. Sandbar - An island in a river.

    3. Continent - A major landmass.

  • Words using 州

    • 九州 きゅうしゅう Listen Kyūshū (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)
    • 州都 しゅうと Listen state capital; provincial capital; county town
    • 州政府 しゅうせいふ Listen state government
    • 広州 こうしゅう Listen Guangzhou (China); Canton
    • 沿海州 えんかいしゅう Listen Primorskaya Oblast (Russia)
    • 北九州 きたきゅうしゅう Listen Kitakyushu (city)

  • Tattoo check: 州

    • Verified meaning: state, sandbar, continent
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read あつむ, くに, しま, しゅう)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 州

    Given names 州(しま)Listen 州(とうしゅう)Listen

    Surnames 州(あつむ)Listen 州(くに)Listen 州(しゅう)Listen 州(すさき)Listen 州(すざき)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    state; province

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    administrative division, state

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    prefecture; (old) province; (old) administrative division; state (e.g. of US); oblast (Russia); canton (Switzerland)

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    state, province, prefecture

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    In high antiquity, regions were divided by high mountains and great rivers into nine provinces: Ji, Yan, Qing, Xu, Jing, Yang, Yu, Liang, Yong—the nine provinces of Yao's time. Shun divided Ji Province into You and Bing; divided Qing Province into Ying, making twelve provinces. Through dynasties there were changes. An ancient 州 was like a modern province. In Ming and Qing, within a province were dozens of regions; larger ones were 州, smaller ones were 縣. At the founding of the Republic, all were changed to 縣. | Five 黨 make one 州. A 州 has 2,500 households. See (Rites of Zhou). Such as calling one's hometown 州里.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    shuu(シュウ) シュウ

    su(ス) ス

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    su(す) す

  • Strokes

    tip

    6 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    巛 川 (kawa・magekawa・magarigawa)

  • Related Keywords

    state sandbar continent island land province prefecture canton commonwealth county department district division jurisdiction landmass realm region territory

Sentences including 州

  • I have never been to kyushu.

  • Have you ever been to kyushu?

  • He lives in a small village in kyushu.

Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces

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