dǎo

island

DEFINITIONS

  • island
  • variant of 島|岛[dao3]
  • island
  • CL:個|个[ge4],座[zuo4]

WORDS

běi dǎo Bei Dao (1949-), Chinese poet
北馬里亞納群 běi mǎ lǐ yà nà qún dǎo Northern Mariana Islands
湖 qiān dǎo hú Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang, aka Xin'an River Reservoir, created as part of a large hydroelectric project in 1959
qiān dǎo qún dǎo Kuril Islands, archipelago in Sakhalin, far-eastern Russia
醬 qiān dǎo jiàng thousand island dressing
bàn dǎo peninsula
和東方航海 bàn dǎo hé dōng fāng háng hǎi P&O; Peninsula and Oriental shipping company
國際學校 bàn dǎo guó jì xué xiào International School of the Penninsula
電視台 bàn dǎo diàn shì tái Al Jazeera (Arabic news network)
南喬治亞和南桑威奇 nán qiáo zhì yà dǎo hé nán sāng wēi qí South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands
nán dǎo South Island (New Zealand)
民族 nán dǎo mín zú Austronesian
南極洲半 nán jí zhōu bàn dǎo the Antarctic Peninsula (jutting out towards South America)
南沙群 nán shā qún dǎo Spratly Islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam
南澳 nán ào dǎo Nan'ao Island in Shantou 汕頭|汕头[Shan4 tou2], Guangdong
南西諸 nán xī zhū dǎo Ryukyu Islands; Okinawa 沖繩|冲绳[Chong1 sheng2] and other islands of modern Japan
博拉博拉 bó lā bó lā dǎo Bora Bora, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia
印度支那半 yìn dù zhī nà bàn dǎo Indochina (old term, esp. colonial period); now written 中南半島|中南半岛[Zhong1 nan2 Ban4 dao3]
印支半 yìn zhī bàn dǎo Indochina (abbr. for colonial term 印度支那半島|印度支那半岛[Yin4 du4 zhi1 na4 Ban4 dao3]); now written 中南半島|中南半岛[Zhong1 nan2 Ban4 dao3]
史丹頓 shǐ dān dùn dǎo Staten Island, borough of New York City
吉之 jí zhī dǎo JUSCO, Japanese chain of hypermarkets
吉爾伯特群 jí ěr bó tè qún dǎo Gilbert Islands
呂宋 lǚ sòng dǎo Luzon Island, north Philippines
哈馬黑拉 hā mǎ hēi lā dǎo Halmahera, an island of Indonesia
yán dǎo Itsukushima island in Hiroshima prefecture, Japan, with a famous shrine