洲 — Chinese character
洲
zhōu
continent; island
- Pinyin
- zhōu
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 氵 州
- Formation
- ideographic — A state 州 surrounded by water 氵; 州 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 洲 as a kanji
Common words with 洲
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 三角洲 | sān jiǎo zhōu | delta (geography) |
| 绿洲 (綠洲) | lǜ zhōu | oasis |
| 洲际 (洲際) | zhōu jì | intercontinental |
| 大洲 | dà zhōu | continent |
| 沙洲 | shā zhōu | sandbank; sandbar |
| 五洲 | wǔ zhōu | five continents; the world |
| 洲际导弹 (洲際導彈) | zhōu jì dǎo dàn | intercontinental ballistic missile ICBM |
| 五大洲 | wǔ dà zhōu | five continents; the whole world |
| 跨洲 | kuà zhōu | intercontinental |
| 汀洲 | tīng zhōu | shoal; islet in a stream |
| 小美洲鸵 (小美洲鴕) | xiǎo měi zhōu tuó | (ornithology) lesser rhea; Darwin's rhea (Rhea pennata) |
| 洲府 | zhōu fǔ | state government |
English words written with 洲
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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