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EntryCommonJLPT N3WaniKani 6

  1. Noun, Noun, used as a suffix

    state (of the US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.); province (e.g. of Canada); county (e.g. of the UK); region (e.g. of Italy); canton; oblast

    南部の州へ冬期に旅行すると、今旅行するよりも料金が高くなります。
    Traveling to the southern states during the winter will be costlier than it is now.

  2. continent

  3. Noun, used as a suffix

    province (of Japan)

    Historical termsee 国

  4. Noun, Noun, used as a suffix

    province (of ancient China); prefecture; department

    Historical term

  5. Suffix

    dear

    Archaicafter a person's name

Also written 洲【しゅう】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
州
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

state, province

Kun
す
On
シュウス
Strokes
6
Taught
Grade 3
JLPT
N2
Frequency
386 of 2500
Radical
巛 river
WaniKani
Level 6

Built from

｜川丶

Used in names as

くに

Words starting with 州Words ending in 州Anywhere in a word
Dictionary and index codes (32)
CodeReference
1-2-4, 1-1-5SKIP code
2f4.1The Kanji Dictionary
3200.0Four corner code
1254deroo
5ddeUnicode hex code
1-29-03JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
99Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1529New Nelson (John Haig)
57New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
64Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
39Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
40Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
128Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
135Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
542A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
224Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
445Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
8678Morohashi
304A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
195Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
195Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
424sakade
490Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
320henshall3
271Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
553Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
549Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
130Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
zhou1Pinyin reading
juKorean reading
n2JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
6WaniKani level