Chinese symbol for “peninsula”
半岛
bàn dǎo
Traditional: 半島
peninsula
The closest CC-CEDICT match for peninsula is 半岛 (bàn dǎo), defined as: peninsula.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 半岛.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一半 | yī bàn | half |
| 半年 | bàn nián | half a year |
| 半个 (半個) | bàn ge | half of sth |
| 半数 (半數) | bàn shù | half the number; half |
| 上半年 | shàng bàn nián | first half of the year |
| 岛屿 (島嶼) | dǎo yǔ | island |
| 群岛 (群島) | qún dǎo | group of islands; archipelago |
| 小岛 (小島) | xiǎo dǎo | isle |
See also: Japanese symbol for “peninsula”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.