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岛屿

dǎo yǔ

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 島嶼

岛屿 (dǎo yǔ) means "island". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 岛屿 means

1. island

The characters in 岛屿

• 岛dǎoisland
• 屿yǔislet

Example sentences

• 有海岛屿。
  There are islands in the sea.
• 一座岛屿映入眼帘。
  Yī zuò dǎoyǔ yìngrùyǎnlián.
  An island came in sight.
• 台湾是一个岛屿国家。
  Taiwan is an island nation.
• 这个岛屿位于日本的西边。
  Zhège dǎoyǔ wèiyú Rìběn de xībiān.
  The island lies to the west of Japan.
• 这座岛屿上的所有人都认识汤姆。
  Everybody on the island knows Tom.
• 从飞机上看，那是个非常美丽的岛屿。
  Cóng fēijī shàng kàn, nàshi gè fēicháng měilì de dǎoyǔ.
  Seen from a plane, that island is very beautiful.

Sounds the same

Read dǎo yǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 导语preamble; introduction; (journalism) lede

Where 岛屿 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · dǎo–dì (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dǎo yǔ correctly.
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