Readings

Kana: シュウ、ス、しま
Romaji: shū, su, shima
Kana
Romaji

Meanings

continent, sandbar, island, country

Stroke Diagram

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Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  9
Radical Number:  85
Frequency:  1979
Grade:  9
Skip Pattern:  1-3-6
Korean Reading:  ju
Chinese Reading:  zhou1
Unicode:  6d32
JIS:  3D27

Indexes

Halpern Index: 391
Nelson Index: 2539
New Nelson Index: 3120
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 3a6.10
Four Corner Index: 3210.0
Japanese Names Index: 820
Daikanwanjiten Index: 17413
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 6.1116
Remembering the kanji Index: 2289
1999 Kanji Learners Index: 291
2013 Kanji Learners Index: 352
Remembering the Kanji 6th Index: 2386
Kodansha Kanji Index: 467
Tuttle Kanji Cards Index: 1178

Words

(しゅう)
state; province; county; oblast; department (of ancient China); continent; dear
(ひじ、ひし)
mid-ocean sandbank
中州 (なかす)
sandbank (in a river); sandbar
欧州 (おうしゅう)
Europe
満州 (まんしゅう)
Manchuria
()
sandbank; sandbar
大州 (たいしゅう)
continent
白州 (しらす)
bar of white sand; gravel separating a noh stage from the audience; court of law(in the Edo period)
五大州 (ごだいしゅう)
the Five Continents
座州 (ざす)
stranding; running aground
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