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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *島* | 島* | *島
island / CL: 個|个,
HSK 6
peninsula
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *㠀* | 㠀* | *㠀
variant of 島|岛
HSK 6
Penghu or Pescadores, archipelago of 90 islands to west of Taiwan
Iceland
Hawaii island
Hong Kong Island / abbr. for 香港島|香港岛
Sing Tao, Hong Kong media group and publisher of Sing Tao Daily 星島日報|星岛日报
Matsu Islands
Spratly Islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam
Taiwan Island
Hormuz Island, Iran, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf
Midway Islands
Korean Peninsula
Jeju Island special autonomous province, South Korea, a World Heritage site
island
Mariana Islands in the Pacific
traffic island; pedestrian refuge
the Antarctic Peninsula (jutting out towards South America)
Azores Islands
Timor island
Hiroshima, Japan
Devil's Island in French Guiana, a former penal colony (1852-1953)
Bei Dao (1949-), Chinese poet
Galapagos Islands
Balkan Peninsula
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
Indochina
Nakajima or Nakashima (Japanese surname and place name)
Rhode Island, US state / Rhodes, an island of Greece
Liaodong Peninsula
Santa Cruz Island, off the California coast
Malvinas Islands (also known as Falkland Islands)
Texel island, Netherlands
Macclesfield Bank, series of reefs in the South China Sea southeast of Hainan Island
Kamchatka Peninsula, far-eastern Russia
the Seychelles
Channel Islands
Takeshima (Korean Dokdo 獨島|独岛), disputed islands in Sea of Japan
British Isles
Lesbos (Greek island in the Aegean Sea 愛琴海|爱琴海)
Wuzhizhou Island, Hainan
Malay Peninsula
barren or uninhabited island / CL: 個|个,
Crete
South Island (New Zealand)
Hainan Island, China's southernmost province, off the coast of Guangdong
Madagascar
Indochina (abbr. for colonial term 印度支那半島|印度支那半岛) / (now written 中南半島|中南半岛)
Formosa
Indochina (old term, esp. colonial period) / now written 中南半島|中南半岛
Bali (island in Indonesia)
Mariana Islands in the Pacific
Galapagos Islands
JUSCO, Japanese chain of hypermarkets
Pescadores Islands, Taiwan
Liugong island in the Yellow sea
Guernsey (Channel Islands)
Sakurajima, an active volcano in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan
insularization (as a threat to biodiversity)
Zhoushan Island
Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast, administered by Taiwan
Diaoyu Islands, claimed by China but controlled by Japan as the Senkaku Islands, also called the Pinnacle Islands
British Isles
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
Kojima (Japanese surname and place name)
isle
Cook Islands
Arabian Peninsula
Aleutian Islands (trailing 2250 km southwest of Alaska almost down to Kamtchatka)
Mindanao (island in the Philippines)
Fukushima (Japanese surname and place name)
Shandong Peninsula
Flores, Indonesia / also written 弗洛里斯島|弗洛里斯岛
Jersey (Channel Islands)
Guadalcanal, the largest island in Solomon Islands
Kuril Islands, archipelago in Sakhalin, far-eastern Russia
Kamchatka Peninsula, far-eastern Russia
Iberian Peninsula
Caroline Islands
Kalimantan island (Indonesian name for Borneo island)
Spratly Islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam / same as 南沙群島|南沙群岛
Matsushima (name) / Matsushima town and national park in Miyagi prefecture, Japan
Bikini atoll, French nuclear test site in South Pacific
insula
Okinawa Island
outlying islands
Indochina
Falkland Islands
island (the superstructure of an aircraft carrier, on the starboard side of the deck)

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