州 — 6 strokes ／ Radical「巛」
道8Elementary year 3 ／ 6 strokes ／ Radical「巛」
- On
- シュウ
- Kun
- す
- Meaning
- state, province, sandbank
Origin
A picture of a sandbank in the middle of a river. As land people could live on, it came to mean 'sandbank, state, province'.
Stroke order
Readings and examples
| シュウ | 州議会・六大州 |
|---|---|
| す | 州・中州・三角州 |
Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.
Compounds
- 九州きゅうしゅう
Kyushu
- 本州ほんしゅう
Honshu
Example
九州は 日本の 南に あります。
Kyushu is in the south of Japan.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)