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岛

dǎo

HSK 5 Character Traditional 島 Measure word 个、座

What 岛 means

1. island

Other readings

岛 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• dǎovariant of {岛|dǎo}

Example sentences

• 有海岛。
  Yǒu hǎidǎo.
  There are islands in the sea.
• 解放龟岛！
  Jiěfàng guī dǎo!
  Free Turtle Island!
• 有海岛屿。
  There are islands in the sea.
• 海里有岛。
  There are islands in the sea.
• 我是冰岛人。
  I'm Icelandic.
• 他们来自冰岛。
  Tāmen láizì Bīngdǎo.
  They're from Iceland.

Words starting with 岛

• 岛屿dǎo yǔisland
• 岛国dǎo guóisland nation (sometimes refers specifically to Japan)
• 岛民dǎo mínislander
• 岛国动作片dǎo guó dòng zuò piàneuphemism for Japanese porn movie
• 岛链dǎo liànisland chain
• 岛盖部dǎo gài bùpars perculairs
• 岛弧dǎo hú(geology) island arc
• 岛鸫dǎo dōng(bird species of China) island thrush (Turdus poliocephalus)

Words containing 岛

• 半岛bàn dǎopeninsula
• 群岛qún dǎogroup of islands; archipelago
• 冰岛Bīng dǎoIceland
• 海岛hǎi dǎoisland
• 孤岛gū dǎoisolated island
• 青岛市Qīng dǎo ShìQingdao, sub-provincial city in Shandong Province 山东省
• 海南岛Hǎi nán DǎoHainan Island, China's southernmost province, off the coast of Guangdong
• 广岛Guǎng dǎoHiroshima (prefecture and city in Japan)
• 环岛huán dǎotraffic circle; rotary; roundabout; to travel around an island
• 钓鱼岛Diào yú DǎoDiaoyu Islands, claimed by China but controlled by Japan as the Senkaku Islands, also…
• 胰岛素yí dǎo sùinsulin
• 荒岛huāng dǎobarren or uninhabited island
• 宝岛Bǎo dǎoFormosa
• 列岛liè dǎoarchipelago; chain of islands
• 千岛湖Qiān dǎo HúQiandao Lake in Zhejiang, aka Xin'an River Reservoir, created as part of a large…
• 秦皇岛市Qín huáng dǎo ShìQinhuangdao, prefecture-level city in Hebei Province 河北省
• 半岛电视台Bàn dǎo Diàn shì táiAl Jazeera (Arabic news network)
• 中岛Zhōng dǎoNakajima or Nakashima (Japanese surname and place name)
• 北岛Běi DǎoBei Dao (1949-), Chinese poet
• 南岛Nán dǎoSouth Island (of New Zealand); (bound form) Austronesian
• 严岛Yán dǎoItsukushima (island in Hiroshima, Japan)
• 小岛xiǎo dǎoisle
• 星岛Xīng dǎoSing Tao, Hong Kong media group and publisher of Sing Tao Daily 星岛日报
• 本岛běn dǎomain island

Characters that look like 岛

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 每měieach; every
• 角jiǎoangle; corner; horn
• 夷yínon-Han people, esp. to the East of China; barbarians; to wipe out
• 吾wú(old) I; my
• 枭xiāoowl; valiant; trafficker
• 昙tándark clouds

Sounds the same

Read dǎo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 倒to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow
• 导to transmit; to lead; to guide
• 蹈to tread on; to trample; to stamp
• 捣to pound; to beat; to hull
• 祷prayer; pray; supplication
• 壔column; cylinder
• 擣stir; to pound
• 禂to pray; prayer
• 嶋variant of 岛; used as second component of Japanese names with phonetic value -shima or…
• 嶌variant of 岛; used in Japanese names with reading -shima or -jima