州

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

Historical forms of the character 州
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(grade 3 “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)

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

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”)

(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, province