州

州 U+5DDE, 州 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5DDE ← 川 [U+5DDD] CJK Unified Ideographs 巟 → [U+5DDF]

Stroke order

州 (Kangxi radical 47, 巛+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈中戈中 (ILIL), four-corner 3200₀, composition ⿻⿲丿丶丶川(GJKV) or ⿻⿲丶丶丶川(HT))

• 㖄 𪣏 洲 𦭴 栦 𥒁 𤥅 𪰢 𣌮 絒 𧋀 詶 酬 銂 駲 喌

• 𠂗 刕

• ツ

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 324, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8678
• Dae Jaweon: page 624, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 46, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5DDE

trad.		州
simp. #		州
alternative forms		𠄓 𭘀

Pictogram (象形) – islet in a river.

州

1. ^† Alternative form of 洲 (zhōu, “islet in a river”)
2. (historical, now still used in place names) zhou (a type of historical political divisions of China, usually translated as prefecture or province)

   揚州／扬州  ―  Yángzhōu  ―  (historical) Yang Province; (modern) Yangzhou

3. Short for 自治州 (zìzhìzhōu).
4. state; canton; oblast (of some countries)

• (state): (Dungan) область

• 省份 (shěngfèn), 省 (shěng, “province”)
• 縣／县 (xiàn, “county”)
• 邦 (bāng, “state, especially Indian or Burmese”)

• → Lü: ᦵᦋᦲᧁᧈ (tsoew¹)
• → Manchu: ᠵᡝᠣ (jeo)
• → Mongolian: ᠵᠧᠦ (ǰēü), жүү (žüü)
• → Khotanese: -cū
  • → Old Turkic: 𐰲𐰆𐰉 (čub¹)

• “州”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: す (su)
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū, Jōyō)^{←しう (siu, historical)}
• Kun: す (su, 州, Jōyō)、しま (shima, 州)

Kanji in this term
州
しゅう Grade: 3
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 州 (MC tsyuw).

州(しゅう) • (shū) ^{←しう (siu)?}

1. first-level administrative division of some countries, such as: (1) state of the United States, Australia, India, Nigeria and Germany; (2) province of Canada; (3) canton of Switzerland; etc.
2. used in place names, usually associated with (historical) political divisions

Kanji in this term
州
しゅう Grade: 3
kan'on

Alternative spelling
洲 (dated)

州 is a daiyōji replacing 洲.

州(しゅう) • (-shū) ^{←しう (-siu)?}

1. continent
2. used in place names

• 欧(おう)州(しゅう) (Ōshū, “Europe”)
• 満(まん)州(しゅう) (Manshū, “Manchuria”)

Kanji in this term
州
す Grade: 3
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 州 – see the following entry.

【す】 [noun] 州, 洲: sandbank, sandbar Alternative spelling 洲

(This term, 州, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕu]
• Phonetic hangul: [주]

Wikisource

州 (eumhun 고을 주 (go'eul ju))

1. hanja form^? of 주 (“state; province”)

州: Hán Nôm readings: châu, chu

1. state
2. province