屿

noun #24,169

Meanings

  1. 1 islet
  2. 2 small island

Examples

Gǔlàngyǔ shì Xiàmén zhùmíng de xiǎo dǎo.
Gulangyu is a famous small island in Xiamen.
Zhège xiǎo yǔ shàng zhǐyǒu jǐ hù rénjiā.
There are only a few households on this small islet.

Tips

usage
屿 appears almost exclusively in proper place names like 屿 (Gulangyu) and 屿 (Orchid Island, Taiwan). On its own it simply means a small island or islet, and is a literary / geographic term.

Stroke Order

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