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Borneo island (of Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *島* | 島* | *島
island / CL: 個|个,
HSK 6
Hawaiian Islands
Penghu or Pescadores, archipelago of 90 islands to west of Taiwan
Kauaʻi, fourth-largest island of the Hawaiian archipelago
division of China during earliest dynasties / fig. ancient China / Kyūshū, southernmost of Japan's four major islands
Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
Hawaiʻi, largest island of the Hawaiian archipelago
Majuro, capital of Marshall Islands
Oʻahu, third-largest and most populated island of the Hawaiian archipelago
Central, Hong Kong Island
Hong Kong Island / abbr. for 香港島|香港岛
Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, former US nuclear test site in the Pacific
Matsu Islands
Spratly Islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam
Taiwan Island
island
HSK 7-9
Penghu county (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan
Baisha (common place name) / Baisha Lizu autonomous county, Hainan / Baisha or Paisha township in Penghu county 澎湖縣|澎湖县 (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan
mainland China (PRC excluding Hong Kong and Macau, but including islands such as Hainan) / Japan (used in Taiwan during Japanese colonization)
Tahiti, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia
Hormuz Island, Iran, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf
Lantau Island, an island in Hong Kong
Midway Islands
Manhattan island / Manhattan borough of New York City
Bali (island province of Indonesia)
Jeju Island special autonomous province, South Korea, a World Heritage site
one of three fabled islands in Eastern sea, abode of immortals
island
Mariana Islands in the Pacific
traffic island; pedestrian refuge
urban heat island effect
Azores Islands
Timor island
(geopolitics) First Island Chain, strategic arc of islands including Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines
Devil's Island in French Guiana, a former penal colony (1852-1953)
thousand island dressing
Maui, second-largest island of the Hawaiian archipelago
Northern Mariana Islands
Galapagos Islands
Pengjia Island, administered as part of Chilung or Keelung 基隆, Taiwan
Tanegashima, Japanese Island off Kyushu, the Japanese space launch site
Rhode Island, US state / Rhodes, an island of Greece
Xinanzhongsha islands, Hainan
Hong Kong Island
Cayman Islands
Rhode Island, US state / Rhodes, an island of Greece
Yuen Long town, Hong Kong Island
Santa Cruz Island, off the California coast
Municipality of the Islands (Macau) / Concelho das Ilhas
Nauru, island country in the southwestern Pacific (Tw)
Malvinas Islands (also known as Falkland Islands)
Texel island, Netherlands
Macclesfield Bank, series of reefs in the South China Sea southeast of Hainan Island
Tambora, volcano on Indonesian island of Sumbawa 松巴哇, whose 1815 eruption is greatest in recorded history
Tin Hau MTR station (Eastern District, Hong Kong Island)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *洲* | 洲* | *洲
continent / island in a river
Channel Islands
Java (island of Indonesia)
Takeshima (Korean Dokdo 獨島|独岛), disputed islands in Sea of Japan
Lesbos (Greek island in the Aegean Sea 愛琴海|爱琴海)
Wuzhizhou Island, Hainan
Sicily / Sicilia (Italian Island)
Martinique (French Caribbean island)
barren or uninhabited island / CL: 個|个,
South Island (New Zealand)
Krakatoa (volcanic island in Indonesia)
Hainan Island, China's southernmost province, off the coast of Guangdong
Montserrat (Caribbean island, a British Overseas Territory)
Luzon Strait between Taiwan and Luzon Island (Philippines)
Bali (island in Indonesia)
Mt Cook on New Zealand South Island, national park and highest peak
to be lined up (like a chain of islands, a string of pearls etc) / to form a cluster (like a bunch of grapes) / to come one after the other (like a series of sighs)
Penghu county (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan
Jeju island special autonomous province, South Korea, a World Heritage site
Mariana Islands in the Pacific
Galapagos Islands
Jincheng (common place name) / Chincheng town in Kinmen County 金門縣|金门县 (Kinmen or Quemoy islands), Taiwan
Ithaca, a Greek island / Ithaca, New York, location of Cornell University 康奈爾大學|康奈尔大学
Kiribati (formerly the Gilbert Islands) (Tw)
Pescadores Islands, Taiwan
Luzon, island of the Philippines / the Ryukyu islands
Liugong island in the Yellow sea
Kalimantan (Indonesian part of the island of Borneo)
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Penghu island county of Taiwan, off the coast of Kaohsiung
Guernsey (Channel Islands)
Qiongzhou, historic name for Hainan Island 海南島|海南岛
Zhoushan Island
Lianjiang, a county in Fuzhou City 福州市, Fujian / Lienchiang County, the official name of the Matsu Islands 馬祖列島|马祖列岛, a county of the ROC (based in Taiwan)
Chinsha town in Kinmen County 金門縣|金门县 (Kinmen or Quemoy islands), Taiwan
Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast, administered by Taiwan
Long Island Iced Tea
Yingtai, artificial island in Zhongnanhai 中南海, now serves as the site to host national banquets and receptions
Diaoyu Islands, claimed by China but controlled by Japan as the Senkaku Islands, also called the Pinnacle Islands
Gulangyu, scenic island off Xiamen 廈門|厦门
island of the immortals
the Greater Antilles, Caribbean island group including Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Jamaica and Puerto Rico
Wake Island (North Pacific Ocean)
Tsushima Island, between Japan and South Korea

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