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岛
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Definitions
- 1. island
Example Sentences
1 shown有海 岛 。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 岛
Guernsey (Channel Islands)
urban heat island effect
(geology) island arc
Saint Lucia
Ryukyu Islands
Faroe Islands
Balkan Peninsula
Huludao prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省[liáo níng shěng] in northeast China
Madeira
Qinhuangdao, prefecture-level city in Hebei
Tanegashima, Japanese Island off Kyushu, the Japanese space launch site
Lüdao or Lutao township in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[tái dōng xiàn], southeast Taiwan
Penghu island county of Taiwan, off the coast of Kaohsiung
island
Pescadores Islands, Taiwan
Indochina
Senkaku Islands (Japanese name for the Diaoyu Islands 釣魚島|钓鱼岛[diào yú dǎo]), also known as the Pinnacle Islands
Qinhuangdao, prefecture-level city in Hebei
University of Guam
island arc (geology)
euphemism for Japanese porn movie
archipelago
Rhodes, Mediterranean island
Tsushima Island, between Japan and South Korea
Guam
Shetland Islands
Shengsi Islands, making up Shengsi county in Zhoushan 舟山[zhōu shān], Zhejiang
Gilbert Islands
(bird species of China) island thrush (Turdus poliocephalus)
peninsula
Changdao county in Yantai 煙台|烟台[yān tái], Shandong
Galapagos Islands
Hormuz Island, Iran, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf
Sumbawa, Indonesian island east of Java
Sing Tao, Hong Kong media group and publisher of Sing Tao Daily 星島日報|星岛日报
Municipality of the Islands (Macau)
Bora Bora, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia
Tsushima, a city in Aichi prefecture, Japan
Hiroshima prefecture, Japan
Java (island of Indonesia)
Hawaii island
Bei Dao (1949-), Chinese poet
Bolshoi Ussuriisk Island in the Heilongjiang or Amur river, at mouth of the Ussuri River opposite Khabarovsk
Shandong Peninsula
barren or uninhabited island
Macclesfield Bank, series of reefs in the South China Sea southeast of Hainan Island
Canary Islands
an island in the sea
Chongming Island
Aleutian Islands (trailing 2250 km southwest of Alaska almost down to Kamtchatka)
pars perculairs
Malvinas Islands (also known as Falkland Islands)
artificial island
island nation (sometimes refers specifically to Japan)
Greater Antilles, Caribbean archipelago
British Isles
Ascension Island
Norfolk Island
isolated island
Huangdao district of Qingdao city 青島市|青岛市, Shandong
Maluku Islands, Indonesia
Corsica (Island located west of Italy and southeast of France)
Rhode Island, US state
International School of the Penninsula
British Virgin Islands
Qingdao, subprovincial city in Shandong
Halmahera, an island of Indonesia
Mindanao (island in the Philippines)
Guernsey (Channel Islands)
Gran Canaria (in the Canary Islands)
Sakhalin
Islands District of the New Territories, Hong Kong
Batan Islands in Bashi Channel between Taiwan and the Philippines
Formosa
Kaohsiung Incident (aka Formosa Incident), a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on 10 December 1979 during Taiwan's martial law period
Tasmania
outlying islands
Matsu Islands
Aegadian Islands near Sicily, Italy
Zhoushan Island
now written 中南半島|中南半岛[zhōng nán bàn dǎo]
Diego Garcia tropical island and US military base in the Indian Ocean, main island of Chago archipelago 查戈斯群島|查戈斯群岛[chá gē sī qún dǎo]
Formosa (from Ilha Formosa, \Beautiful Isle\, the name given to Taiwan Island by passing Portuguese mariners in 1544)
Dokdo (Japanese Takeshima 竹島|竹岛[zhú dǎo]), disputed islands in Sea of Japan
Hiroshima, Japan
Okinawa Island
Taiwan Island
Long Island Iced Tea
Liaodong Peninsula
group of islands
Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico)
Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast, administered by Taiwan
Andaman Islands
Babuyan Archipelago in Luzon Strait north of the Philippines
Cayman Islands
Sing Tao Daily, Hong Kong newspaper
Sinai Peninsula
Azores Islands
Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson 羅伯特·路易斯·斯蒂文森|罗伯特·路易斯·斯蒂文森[luó bó tè · lù yì sī · sī dì wén sēn]
Sakurajima, an active volcano in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan
Tonga
Solomon Islands in southwest Pacific
Flores, Indonesia
Cook Islands
Lesbos (Greek island in the Aegean Sea 愛琴海|爱琴海[ài qín hǎi])
Santa Cruz Island, off the California coast
main island
Prince Edward Island, province of Canada
Diaoyu Islands, claimed by China but controlled by Japan as the Senkaku Islands, also called the Pinnacle Islands
Timor island
Flores, Indonesia
Bolshoi Ussuriisk Island in the Heilongjiang or Amur river, at mouth of the Ussuri River opposite Khabarovsk
Itsukujima shrine in Hiroshima prefecture, Japan
Nan'ao Island in Shantou 汕頭|汕头[shàn tóu], Guangdong
Guadalcanal Island
Hainan Island in South China Sea
traffic circle; rotary; roundabout
Hengchun Peninsula in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[píng dōng xiàn], the southernmost point of Taiwan
islets of Langerhans (medicine)
Northern Mariana Islands
Meizhou Island (Putian)
Hispaniola (Caribbean Island divided between Dominican Republic and Haiti)
Sardinia
Al Jazeera (Arabic news network)
South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands
Pescadores Islands, Penghu county, Taiwan
Paracel Islands, in the South China Sea
Penghu or Pescadores, archipelago of 90 islands to west of Taiwan
islander
reef island
Spratly Islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam
Tsingtao Beer
Wuzhizhou Island, Hainan
Shedao or Snake island in Bohai sea 渤海 off Lüshun 旅順|旅顺 on the tip of the Liaoning peninsula, small rocky island famous for snakes
Hong Kong Island
Devil's Island in French Guiana, a former penal colony (1852-1953)
Pitcairn Islands
Galapagos Islands
Matsushima (name)
Åland Islands, Finland
island of the immortals
Falkland Islands
island of Bali
Channel Islands
Turks and Caicos Islands
Bikini atoll, French nuclear test site in South Pacific
isle
Austronesian
Vancouver Island
Antigua
Hong Kong Island
see 郎格罕氏島|郎格罕氏岛[láng gé hǎn shì dǎo]
Alderney (Channel Islands)
Crete
Corfu (Greek: Kerkira), island in the Ionian sea
Mariana Islands in the Pacific
Normandy peninsula
Rhode Island, US state
Victoria Island
(bird species of China) Sakhalin leaf warbler (Phylloscopus borealoides)
(bird species of China) Ijima's leaf warbler (Phylloscopus ijimae)
Easter Island
Caroline Islands
Kalimantan island (Indonesian name for Borneo island)
insularization (as a threat to biodiversity)
Lesbos (Greek island in Aegean)
Korean Peninsula
Liugong island in the Yellow sea
Changdao county in Yantai 煙台|烟台, Shandong
Baengnyeong Island of South Korea, near the Northern Limit Line
British Isles
Saint Helena
Lüdao or Lutao township in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[tái dōng xiàn], southeast Taiwan
Midway Islands
Jersey (Channel Islands)
Ascension Island
Ellis Island
Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, a 10 meter long hadrosaur with a single horn on its duck-billed snout
Fukushima prefecture in north Japan
United States Virgin Islands (USVI)
Kuril Islands, archipelago in Sakhalin, far-eastern Russia
Huangyan Island (in the South China Sea)
Leizhou Peninsula
Korean peninsula (esp. South Korean usage)
South Island (New Zealand)
volcanic island
Yeonpyeong island on Yellow Sea coast of Korea
Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea
Greenland
Iceland
Ryukyu Islands
the Okinawa archipelago
Iberian Peninsula
Marshall Islands
Texel island, Netherlands
Bali (island in Indonesia)
Isle of Wight, island off the south coast of England
insulin
Isle of Man, British Isles
Kamchatka Peninsula, far-eastern Russia
Battle of Midway, June 1942
Christmas Island, Australia
Huludao prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省[liáo níng shěng] in northeast China
Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), Japanese author, pen name of (平岡公威|平冈公威, Hiraoka Kimitake)
Wake Island (North Pacific Ocean)
Mariana Islands in the Pacific
Qingdao, subprovincial city in Shandong
see also 馬恩島|马恩岛[mǎ ēn dǎo]
the Seychelles
Itsukushima island in Hiroshima prefecture, Japan, with a famous shrine
Sicily
Sardinia
now written 中南半島|中南半岛[zhōng nán bàn dǎo]
island
Prince Edward Island (province of Canada)
Takeshima (Korean Dokdo 獨島|独岛[dú dǎo]), disputed islands in Sea of Japan
Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia
Malay Peninsula
Xinanzhongsha islands, Hainan
Spratly Islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam
island (the superstructure of an aircraft carrier, on the starboard side of the deck)
Madagascar
Galapagos Islands
Kamchatka Peninsula, far-eastern Russia
Arabian Peninsula
New Britain, island of northeast Papua New Guinea
Indochina
insula
Chagos Archipelago, coral archipelago in tropical Indian Ocean, with Diego Garcia 迪戈·加西亞島|迪戈·加西亚岛[dí gē · jiā xī yà dǎo] as largest island
thousand island dressing
JUSCO, Japanese chain of hypermarkets
Bora Bora, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia
Santorini (volcanic island in the Aegean sea)
Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang, aka Xin'an River Reservoir, created as part of a large hydroelectric project in 1959
the Ryukyu or Luchu Islands (including Okinawa)
Luzon Island, north Philippines
Sumatra (one of the Indonesian islands)
Sunda Islands (Malay archipelago)
the Antarctic Peninsula (jutting out towards South America)
Huangdao district of Qingdao city 青島市|青岛市, Shandong
Staten Island, borough of New York City
traffic island; pedestrian refuge
Crimea
Kagoshima, Japanese island prefecture off the south coast of Kyushu
Snake island viper (Gloydius shedaoensis), feeding on migrating birds
Jeju Island special autonomous province, South Korea, a World Heritage site