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亚洲 Yàzhōu “Asia” in Chinese

Traditional 亞洲

What 亚洲 means

  1. Asia
  2. Asia (abbr. for 亚细亚洲)

How to say 亚洲

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale亚Yà4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale洲zhōu1st tone, high and level

亚洲 in a sentence

  1. 我对亚洲的历史很感兴趣。

    Wǒ duì Yàzhōu de lìshǐ hěn gǎn xìngqù.

    I’m very interested in Asian history.

    Sentence #390458 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 亚洲比澳洲大很多。

    Yàzhōu bǐ Àozhōu dà hěn duō.

    Asia is much bigger than Australia.

    Sentence #844580 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 大象生活在亚洲和非洲。

    Dàxiàng shēnghuó zài Yàzhōu hé Fēizhōu.

    Elephants live in Asia and Africa.

    Sentence #846015 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 亚洲 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.

The character 亚 (yà) with each of its parts in a different colour
亚yàsecondYà in 亚洲
  • 一one · yī
  • 业business · yè
The character 洲 (zhōu) with each of its parts in a different colour
洲zhōucontinent
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐ
  • 州state · zhōu

How to write 亚洲

亚 6 strokes · 洲 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

亚洲 (Yàzhōu) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 亚洲 (Yàzhōu). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 亚洲

Words with 亚

亚军yàjūn · runner-up

Words with 洲

欧洲Ōuzhōu · Europe

More words: Places & Directions

客厅kètīng · drawing room (room for arriving guests)入口rùkǒu · entrance首都shǒudū · capital (city)卫生间wèishēngjiān · bathroom长城Chángchéng · the Great Wall长江Cháng Jiāng · Yangtze River邮局yóujú · post office周围zhōuwéi · environs

FAQs

亚洲 (Yàzhōu) means “Asia” or “Asia (abbr. for 亚细亚洲)”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it Yàzhōu: Yà with a 4th tone, then zhōu with a 1st tone. 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, 亚洲 is written 亞洲. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yazhou with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 亚洲 from the suggestions. Typing yazhou into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
亚洲 is an HSK 4 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.