洲
Tap the pinyin to hear it
continent; island in a river
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 水 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 洲
- Common rank
- #657
- Unicode
- U+6D32
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 洲 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A state 州 surrounded by water 氵; 州 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
continent · Heisig RSH #144
州 state + 水 water
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 洲
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 非洲人国民大会 | African National Congress, ANC | |
| 亚美利加洲 | America; abbr. to 美洲[Mei3 zhou1] | |
| 长江三角洲 | Yangtze River Delta | |
| 子洲县 | Zizhou, a county in Yulin City 榆林市[Yu2 lin2 Shi4], Shaanxi | |
| 亚洲开发银行 | Asian Development Bank | |
| 长江三角洲经济区 | Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone (economic region including Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangs… | |
| 亚洲足球联合会 | Asian Football Confederation (AFC), the governing body of football (soccer) in Asia | |
| 长洲区 | Changzhou, a district of Wuzhou City 梧州市[Wu2 zhou1 Shi4], Guangxi | |
| 新洲区 | Xinzhou, a district of Wuhan City 武漢市|武汉市[Wu3 han4 Shi4], Hubei | |
| 阿非利加洲 | Africa | |
| 东洲区 | Dongzhou, a district of Fushun City 撫順市|抚顺市[Fu3 shun4 Shi4], Liaoning | |
| 非洲开发银行 | African Development Bank | |
| 星洲日报 | Sin Chew Daily, Malaysian newspaper | |
| 中美洲 | Central America | |
| 满洲里市 | Manzhouli, a county-level city in Hulunbuir City 呼倫貝爾市|呼伦贝尔市[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3 Shi4], Inne… | |
| 欧洲核子中心 | European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN, at Geneva | |
| 自由亚洲电台 | Radio Free Asia | |
| 欧洲理事会 | European Council | |
| 三角洲 | delta (geography) | |
| 南美洲 | South America |