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島

Level III of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 269 / 2,608

Island

On’yomi
とう
Kun’yomi
しま
Radical
山 Mountain (Kangxi 46)
School grade
3
Strokes
10

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 勝 (Win), less common than 由 (Reason).

The bird with the butcher's ear still hooked in its beak drops onto the tallest of the three peaks, four splayed toes scratching the bare rock.

In words

島 しま islandN4
列島 れっとう chain of islandsN2
半島 はんとう peninsulaN2

島 is rank 269 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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