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島

島

See also: 岛, 嶋, 嶌, and 嶹

Translingual

Han character

島 (radical 46 山+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹日卜山 (HAYU), four-corner 27727)

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 312, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8108
  • Dae Jaweon: page 612, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 775, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+5CF6

Chinese

trad. 島
simp. 岛
alt. forms 嶋
嶌

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 島
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (鳥) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
島 *tuːwʔ
搗 *taːwʔ
鵃 *rtɯːw, *rtɯːw, *tjiw
瞗 *tɯːw
鳥 *tɯːwʔ
蔦 *tɯːwʔ, *tɯːws
窵 *tɯːws

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tuːwʔ) : phonetic 鳥 ‎(OC *tɯːwʔ) + semantic 山 ‎(“mountain”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 島
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 都晧切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tɑuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tɑuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tɑuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tawX/
Li
Rong		 /tɑuX/
Wang
Li		 /tɑuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tɑuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dǎo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 島
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dǎo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tawX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tˤuʔ/
English island

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 島
Reading # 1/1
No. 9507
Phonetic
component		 鳥
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 倒
Old
Chinese		 /*tuːwʔ/

Definitions

島

  1. island

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

島

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
島
しま
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

島 ‎(hiragana しま, romaji shima)

  1. island

Proper noun

島 ‎(hiragana しま, romaji Shima)

  1. A surname​.

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
島
とう
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Suffix

島 ‎(hiragana とう, romaji -tō)

  1. island (in place names)

References

  1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

島 • ‎(do)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 도 (McCune-Reischauer: to)
  • Name (hangeul): 섬()
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Vietnamese

Han character

島 (đảo, láo)

  1. island

Compounds

Usage notes

  • Chữ Nôm. The modern Vietnamese word for island is đảo.

References

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