Cóng fēijī shàng kàn, nà shì ge fēicháng měilì de dǎoyǔ.
Seen from the plane, the island is very beautiful.
Sentence #886138 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted
How 岛屿 is built
Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.
岛dǎoisland
鸟bird · diǎo
山mountain · shān
屿yǔislet
山mountain · shānMeaning part
与and · yǔSound part
山 hints at the meaning (mountain); 与 (yǔ) hints at the sound. Compare it with yǔ.
How to write 岛屿
岛 7 strokes · 屿 6 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 岛屿 (dǎoyǔ). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
岛屿 (dǎoyǔ) means “islands” or “island”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it dǎoyǔ: dǎo with a 3rd tone, then yǔ with a 3rd tone. In speech it sounds like dáoyǔ. When two third tones meet, the first one rises into a second tone. You still write it with two third tones. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 岛屿 is written 島嶼. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type daoyu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 岛屿 from the suggestions. Typing daoyu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
岛屿 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.
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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
岛dǎo3rd tone, dipping
