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Kanji Detail for 澳 - "cove, deep, australia, offing"
澳
- Meaning
澳 means "cove, deep, australia, offing."
Cove - A place where a river curves and cuts into the land.
Deep - Profound.
Australia - Abbreviation for Australia (Japanese usage).
Offing - The open sea far from the shore (Japanese usage).
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
curving shoreline; bend in river
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
inlet, bay; dock, bank
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
Macao (abbr. for 澳門|澳门[Ao4 men2]); Australia (abbr. for 澳大利亞|澳大利亚[Ao4 da4 li4 ya4])
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
bay, cove, dock, inlet
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A bend in a river. 淇澳 appears in (Book of Odes), referring to the bend of the Qi River. | Any place by the sea where ships can dock is called 澳. As in Macao (澳門) in Guangdong. | Australia (澳大利亞洲) is also abbreviated as 澳洲.
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