IDENTITY
岛dǎoisland
HSK 4Top 800
CORE MEANING
island
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.islandHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 山mountain radical (shān)
- strokes
- 7
- Structure
- semi-enclosed compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿹④山
- mountain
USAGE
Common words
海岛hǎidǎoisland
岛屿dǎoyǔislands
Graded examples
这个岛很美。Zhège dǎo hěn měi.HSK4
This island is beautiful.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
A mountain (山) held up in the sea (鸟, from 島) — an island. (Simplified from 島.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #800
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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