洲

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continent

On-Yomi: シュウ

Koohii stories:

1) [astridtops] 17-2-2007(38): Australia is the only continent that is surrounded by water on all sides, yet is still a single state.

2) [mcfate] 14-2-2008(24): If the borders of a state are all water, then it is more properly called a 'continent' instead. (For 州 state (#128 州), I think of the small-dash/big-dash alternating pattern that is used for state borders on some maps.).

3) [lankydan] 13-9-2007(8): Continents have states with water around it.

4) [kapalama] 18-8-2011(6): 八重洲線 , 六大洲 =六大州, 座洲 =座州=坐洲, 中洲 =中州, 砂洲 =砂州, 满洲国 =滿洲國=満州国=Manchukuo, 滿洲 =满洲=Manchuria, continent (#2289 洲) シュウ( 州 ), す( 州 ) … Parts:氵, 州 state (#128 州) … Story: Ignore the keyword; this is just an alternate writing of 州 state (#128 州). More correctly, all of the former uses of this kanji (other than names) have been collapsed into the simplified character 州 .

5) [gdaxeman] 17-1-2011(2): All continents are surrounded by large bodies of water and composed of independent states.

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