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dǎo
HSK 2.0 Level 5 HSK 3.0 Level 6

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Definitions

  1. 1. island

Example Sentences

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Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 3690074)

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Words Containing 岛

根西岛
gēn xī dǎo

Guernsey (Channel Islands)

热岛效应
rè dǎo xiào yìng

urban heat island effect

岛弧
dǎo hú

(geology) island arc

圣卢西亚岛
shèng lú xī yà dǎo

Saint Lucia

南西诸岛
nán xī zhū dǎo

Ryukyu Islands

法罗群岛
fǎ luó qún dǎo

Faroe Islands

巴尔干半岛
bā ěr gàn bàn dǎo

Balkan Peninsula

葫芦岛市
hú lú dǎo shì

Huludao prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省[liáo níng shěng] in northeast China

马德拉群岛
mǎ dé lā qún dǎo

Madeira

秦皇岛市
qín huáng dǎo shì

Qinhuangdao, prefecture-level city in Hebei

种子岛
zhǒng zi dǎo

Tanegashima, Japanese Island off Kyushu, the Japanese space launch site

绿岛
lǜ dǎo

Lüdao or Lutao township in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[tái dōng xiàn], southeast Taiwan

彭湖岛
péng hú dǎo

Penghu island county of Taiwan, off the coast of Kaohsiung

海岛
hǎi dǎo

island

澎湖列岛
péng hú liè dǎo

Pescadores Islands, Taiwan

中南半岛
zhōng nán bàn dǎo

Indochina

尖阁列岛
jiān gé liè dǎo

Senkaku Islands (Japanese name for the Diaoyu Islands 釣魚島|钓鱼岛[diào yú dǎo]), also known as the Pinnacle Islands

秦皇岛
qín huáng dǎo

Qinhuangdao, prefecture-level city in Hebei

关岛大学
guān dǎo dà xué

University of Guam

群岛弧
qún dǎo hú

island arc (geology)

岛国动作片
dǎo guó dòng zuò piàn

euphemism for Japanese porn movie

列岛
liè dǎo

archipelago

罗得斯岛
luó dé sī dǎo

Rhodes, Mediterranean island

对马岛
duì mǎ dǎo

Tsushima Island, between Japan and South Korea

关岛
guān dǎo

Guam

设得兰群岛
shè dé lán qún dǎo

Shetland Islands

嵊泗列岛
shèng sì liè dǎo

Shengsi Islands, making up Shengsi county in Zhoushan 舟山[zhōu shān], Zhejiang

吉尔伯特群岛
jí ěr bó tè qún dǎo

Gilbert Islands

岛鸫
dǎo dōng

(bird species of China) island thrush (Turdus poliocephalus)

半岛
bàn dǎo

peninsula

长岛
cháng dǎo

Changdao county in Yantai 煙台|烟台[yān tái], Shandong

加拉巴哥斯群岛
jiā lā bā gē sī qún dǎo

Galapagos Islands

霍尔木兹岛
huò ěr mù zī dǎo

Hormuz Island, Iran, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf

松巴哇岛
sōng bā wā dǎo

Sumbawa, Indonesian island east of Java

星岛
xīng dǎo

Sing Tao, Hong Kong media group and publisher of Sing Tao Daily 星島日報|星岛日报

海岛市
hǎi dǎo shì

Municipality of the Islands (Macau)

博拉博拉岛
bó lā bó lā dǎo

Bora Bora, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia

津岛
jīn dǎo

Tsushima, a city in Aichi prefecture, Japan

广岛县
guǎng dǎo xiàn

Hiroshima prefecture, Japan

爪哇岛
zhǎo wā dǎo

Java (island of Indonesia)

夏威夷岛
xià wēi yí dǎo

Hawaii island

北岛
běi dǎo

Bei Dao (1949-), Chinese poet

黑瞎子岛
hēi xiā zi dǎo

Bolshoi Ussuriisk Island in the Heilongjiang or Amur river, at mouth of the Ussuri River opposite Khabarovsk

山东半岛
shān dōng bàn dǎo

Shandong Peninsula

荒岛
huāng dǎo

barren or uninhabited island

中沙群岛
zhōng shā qún dǎo

Macclesfield Bank, series of reefs in the South China Sea southeast of Hainan Island

加那利群岛
jiā nà lì qún dǎo

Canary Islands

溟岛
míng dǎo

an island in the sea

崇明岛
chóng míng dǎo

Chongming Island

阿留申群岛
ā liú shēn qún dǎo

Aleutian Islands (trailing 2250 km southwest of Alaska almost down to Kamtchatka)

岛盖部
dǎo gài bù

pars perculairs

马尔维纳斯群岛
mǎ ěr wéi nà sī qún dǎo

Malvinas Islands (also known as Falkland Islands)

人工岛
rén gōng dǎo

artificial island

岛国
dǎo guó

island nation (sometimes refers specifically to Japan)

大安的列斯群岛
dà ān dì liè sī qún dǎo

Greater Antilles, Caribbean archipelago

不列颠诸岛
bù liè diān zhū dǎo

British Isles

阿森松岛
ā sēn sōng dǎo

Ascension Island

诺福克岛
nuò fú kè dǎo

Norfolk Island

孤岛
gū dǎo

isolated island

黄岛区
huáng dǎo qū

Huangdao district of Qingdao city 青島市|青岛市, Shandong

摩鹿加群岛
mó lù jiā qún dǎo

Maluku Islands, Indonesia

科西嘉岛
kē xī jiā dǎo

Corsica (Island located west of Italy and southeast of France)

罗德岛
luó dé dǎo

Rhode Island, US state

半岛国际学校
bàn dǎo guó jì xué xiào

International School of the Penninsula

英属维尔京群岛
yīng shǔ wéi ěr jīng qún dǎo

British Virgin Islands

青岛
qīng dǎo

Qingdao, subprovincial city in Shandong

哈马黑拉岛
hā mǎ hēi lā dǎo

Halmahera, an island of Indonesia

棉兰老岛
mián lán lǎo dǎo

Mindanao (island in the Philippines)

格恩西岛
gé ēn xī dǎo

Guernsey (Channel Islands)

大加那利岛
dà jiā nà lì dǎo

Gran Canaria (in the Canary Islands)

库页岛
kù yè dǎo

Sakhalin

离岛区
lí dǎo qū

Islands District of the New Territories, Hong Kong

巴坦群岛
bā tǎn qún dǎo

Batan Islands in Bashi Channel between Taiwan and the Philippines

宝岛
bǎo dǎo

Formosa

美丽岛事件
měi lì dǎo shì jiàn

Kaohsiung Incident (aka Formosa Incident), a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on 10 December 1979 during Taiwan's martial law period

塔斯曼尼亚岛
tǎ sī màn ní yà dǎo

Tasmania

离岛
lí dǎo

outlying islands

马祖列岛
mǎ zǔ liè dǎo

Matsu Islands

埃加迪群岛
āi jiā dí qún dǎo

Aegadian Islands near Sicily, Italy

舟山群岛
zhōu shān qún dǎo

Zhoushan Island

印支半岛
yìn zhī bàn dǎo

now written 中南半島|中南半岛[zhōng nán bàn dǎo]

迪戈·加西亚岛
dí gē · jiā xī yà 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]

美丽岛
měi lì dǎo

Formosa (from Ilha Formosa, \Beautiful Isle\, the name given to Taiwan Island by passing Portuguese mariners in 1544)

独岛
dú dǎo

Dokdo (Japanese Takeshima 竹島|竹岛[zhú dǎo]), disputed islands in Sea of Japan

广岛
guǎng dǎo

Hiroshima, Japan

冲绳岛
chōng shéng dǎo

Okinawa Island

台湾岛
tái wān dǎo

Taiwan Island

长岛冰茶
cháng dǎo bīng chá

Long Island Iced Tea

辽东半岛
liáo dōng bàn dǎo

Liaodong Peninsula

群岛
qún dǎo

group of islands

尤卡坦半岛
yóu kǎ tǎn bàn dǎo

Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico)

金门岛
jīn mén dǎo

Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast, administered by Taiwan

安达曼群岛
ān dá màn qún dǎo

Andaman Islands

巴布延群岛
bā bù yán qún dǎo

Babuyan Archipelago in Luzon Strait north of the Philippines

开曼群岛
kāi màn qún dǎo

Cayman Islands

星岛日报
xīng dǎo rì bào

Sing Tao Daily, Hong Kong newspaper

西奈半岛
xī nài bàn dǎo

Sinai Peninsula

亚速尔群岛
yà sù ěr qún dǎo

Azores Islands

金银岛
jīn yín dǎo

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]

樱岛
yīng dǎo

Sakurajima, an active volcano in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan

汤加群岛
tāng jiā qún dǎo

Tonga

所罗门群岛
suǒ luó mén qún dǎo

Solomon Islands in southwest Pacific

弗洛勒斯岛
fú luò lēi sī dǎo

Flores, Indonesia

库克群岛
kù kè qún dǎo

Cook Islands

莱斯沃斯岛
lái sī wò sī dǎo

Lesbos (Greek island in the Aegean Sea 愛琴海|爱琴海[ài qín hǎi])

圣克鲁斯岛
shèng kè lǔ sī dǎo

Santa Cruz Island, off the California coast

本岛
běn dǎo

main island

爱德华岛
ài dé huá dǎo

Prince Edward Island, province of Canada

钓鱼岛
diào yú dǎo

Diaoyu Islands, claimed by China but controlled by Japan as the Senkaku Islands, also called the Pinnacle Islands

帝汶岛
dì wèn dǎo

Timor island

弗洛里斯岛
fú luò lǐ sī dǎo

Flores, Indonesia

大乌苏里岛
dà wū sū lǐ dǎo

Bolshoi Ussuriisk Island in the Heilongjiang or Amur river, at mouth of the Ussuri River opposite Khabarovsk

严岛神社
yán dǎo shén shè

Itsukujima shrine in Hiroshima prefecture, Japan

南澳岛
nán ào dǎo

Nan'ao Island in Shantou 汕頭|汕头[shàn tóu], Guangdong

瓜达卡纳尔岛
guā dá kǎ nà ěr dǎo

Guadalcanal Island

海南岛
hǎi nán dǎo

Hainan Island in South China Sea

环岛
huán dǎo

traffic circle; rotary; roundabout

恒春半岛
héng chūn bàn dǎo

Hengchun Peninsula in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[píng dōng xiàn], the southernmost point of Taiwan

郎格罕氏岛
láng gé hǎn shì dǎo

islets of Langerhans (medicine)

北马里亚纳群岛
běi mǎ lǐ yà nà qún dǎo

Northern Mariana Islands

湄洲岛
méi zhōu dǎo

Meizhou Island (Putian)

海地岛
hǎi dì dǎo

Hispaniola (Caribbean Island divided between Dominican Republic and Haiti)

萨丁尼亚岛
sà dīng ní yà dǎo

Sardinia

半岛电视台
bàn dǎo diàn shì tái

Al Jazeera (Arabic news network)

南乔治亚岛和南桑威奇
nán qiáo zhì yà dǎo hé nán sāng wēi qí

South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands

澎湖岛
péng hú dǎo

Pescadores Islands, Penghu county, Taiwan

西沙群岛
xī shā qún dǎo

Paracel Islands, in the South China Sea

澎湖群岛
péng hú qún dǎo

Penghu or Pescadores, archipelago of 90 islands to west of Taiwan

岛民
dǎo mín

islander

礁岛
jiāo dǎo

reef island

斯普拉特利群岛
sī pǔ lā tè lì qún dǎo

Spratly Islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam

青岛啤酒
qīng dǎo pí jiǔ

Tsingtao Beer

蜈支洲岛
wú zhī zhōu dǎo

Wuzhizhou Island, Hainan

蛇岛
shé dǎo

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

港岛
gǎng dǎo

Hong Kong Island

魔鬼岛
mó guǐ dǎo

Devil's Island in French Guiana, a former penal colony (1852-1953)

皮特凯恩群岛
pí tè kǎi ēn qún dǎo

Pitcairn Islands

科隆群岛
kē lóng qún dǎo

Galapagos Islands

松岛
sōng dǎo

Matsushima (name)

奥兰群岛
ào lán qún dǎo

Åland Islands, Finland

仙岛
xiān dǎo

island of the immortals

福克兰群岛
fú kè lán qún dǎo

Falkland Islands

巴里岛
bā lǐ dǎo

island of Bali

海峡群岛
hǎi xiá qún dǎo

Channel Islands

特克斯和凯科斯群岛
tè kè sī hé kǎi kē sī qún dǎo

Turks and Caicos Islands

比基尼岛
bǐ jī ní dǎo

Bikini atoll, French nuclear test site in South Pacific

小岛
xiǎo dǎo

isle

南岛民族
nán dǎo mín zú

Austronesian

温哥华岛
wēn gē huá dǎo

Vancouver Island

安提瓜岛
ān tí guā dǎo

Antigua

香港岛
xiāng gǎng dǎo

Hong Kong Island

胰岛
yí dǎo

see 郎格罕氏島|郎格罕氏岛[láng gé hǎn shì dǎo]

奥尔德尼岛
ào ěr dé ní dǎo

Alderney (Channel Islands)

克里特岛
kè lǐ tè dǎo

Crete

克基拉岛
kè jī lā dǎo

Corfu (Greek: Kerkira), island in the Ionian sea

马里亚纳群岛
mǎ lǐ yà nà qún dǎo

Mariana Islands in the Pacific

诺曼底半岛
nuò màn dǐ bàn dǎo

Normandy peninsula

罗得岛
luó dé dǎo

Rhode Island, US state

维多利亚岛
wéi duō lì yà dǎo

Victoria Island

库页岛柳莺
kù yè dǎo liǔ yīng

(bird species of China) Sakhalin leaf warbler (Phylloscopus borealoides)

饭岛柳莺
fàn dǎo liǔ yīng

(bird species of China) Ijima's leaf warbler (Phylloscopus ijimae)

复活节岛
fù huó jié dǎo

Easter Island

加罗林群岛
jiā luó lín qún dǎo

Caroline Islands

加里曼丹岛
jiā lǐ màn dān dǎo

Kalimantan island (Indonesian name for Borneo island)

生态孤岛
shēng tài gū dǎo

insularization (as a threat to biodiversity)

勒斯波斯岛
lè sī bō sī dǎo

Lesbos (Greek island in Aegean)

朝鲜半岛
cháo xiǎn bàn dǎo

Korean Peninsula

刘公岛
liú gōng dǎo

Liugong island in the Yellow sea

长岛县
cháng dǎo xiàn

Changdao county in Yantai 煙台|烟台, Shandong

白翎岛
bái líng dǎo

Baengnyeong Island of South Korea, near the Northern Limit Line

英伦三岛
yīng lún sān dǎo

British Isles

圣赫勒拿岛
shèng hè lè ná dǎo

Saint Helena

绿岛乡
lǜ dǎo xiāng

Lüdao or Lutao township in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县[tái dōng xiàn], southeast Taiwan

中途岛
zhōng tú dǎo

Midway Islands

泽西岛
zé xī dǎo

Jersey (Channel Islands)

阿松森岛
ā sōng sēn dǎo

Ascension Island

埃利斯岛
āi lì sī dǎo

Ellis Island

棘鼻青岛龙
jí bí qīng dǎo lóng

Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, a 10 meter long hadrosaur with a single horn on its duck-billed snout

福岛县
fú dǎo xiàn

Fukushima prefecture in north Japan

美属维尔京群岛
měi shǔ wéi ěr jīng qún dǎo

United States Virgin Islands (USVI)

千岛群岛
qiān dǎo qún dǎo

Kuril Islands, archipelago in Sakhalin, far-eastern Russia

黄岩岛
huáng yán dǎo

Huangyan Island (in the South China Sea)

雷州半岛
léi zhōu bàn dǎo

Leizhou Peninsula

韩半岛
hán bàn dǎo

Korean peninsula (esp. South Korean usage)

南岛
nán dǎo

South Island (New Zealand)

火山岛
huǒ shān dǎo

volcanic island

延坪岛
yán píng dǎo

Yeonpyeong island on Yellow Sea coast of Korea

布干维尔岛
bù gān wéi ěr dǎo

Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea

格陵兰岛
gé líng lán dǎo

Greenland

冰岛
bīng dǎo

Iceland

琉球群岛
liú qiú qún dǎo

Ryukyu Islands

冲绳群岛
chōng shéng qún dǎo

the Okinawa archipelago

伊比利亚半岛
yī bǐ lì yà bàn dǎo

Iberian Peninsula

马绍尔群岛
mǎ shào ěr qún dǎo

Marshall Islands

泰瑟尔岛
tài sè ěr dǎo

Texel island, Netherlands

巴厘岛
bā lí dǎo

Bali (island in Indonesia)

怀特岛
huái tè dǎo

Isle of Wight, island off the south coast of England

胰岛素
yí dǎo sù

insulin

马恩岛
mǎ ēn dǎo

Isle of Man, British Isles

勘察加半岛
kān chá jiā bàn dǎo

Kamchatka Peninsula, far-eastern Russia

中途岛战役
zhōng tú dǎo zhàn yì

Battle of Midway, June 1942

圣诞岛
shèng dàn dǎo

Christmas Island, Australia

葫芦岛
hú lú dǎo

Huludao prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省[liáo níng shěng] in northeast China

三岛由纪夫
sān dǎo yóu jì fū

Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), Japanese author, pen name of (平岡公威|平冈公威, Hiraoka Kimitake)

威克岛
wēi kè dǎo

Wake Island (North Pacific Ocean)

马利亚纳群岛
mǎ lì yà nà qún dǎo

Mariana Islands in the Pacific

青岛市
qīng dǎo shì

Qingdao, subprovincial city in Shandong

曼岛
màn dǎo

see also 馬恩島|马恩岛[mǎ ēn dǎo]

塞舌尔群岛
sài shé ěr qún dǎo

the Seychelles

严岛
yán dǎo

Itsukushima island in Hiroshima prefecture, Japan, with a famous shrine

西西里岛
xī xī lǐ dǎo

Sicily

撒丁岛
sā dīng dǎo

Sardinia

印度支那半岛
yìn dù zhī nà bàn dǎo

now written 中南半島|中南半岛[zhōng nán bàn dǎo]

岛屿
dǎo yǔ

island

爱德华王子岛
ài dé huá wáng zǐ dǎo

Prince Edward Island (province of Canada)

竹岛
zhú dǎo

Takeshima (Korean Dokdo 獨島|独岛[dú dǎo]), disputed islands in Sea of Japan

火地群岛
huǒ dì qún dǎo

Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia

马来半岛
mǎ lái bàn dǎo

Malay Peninsula

西南中沙群岛
xī nán zhōng shā qún dǎo

Xinanzhongsha islands, Hainan

南沙群岛
nán shā qún dǎo

Spratly Islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam

舰岛
jiàn dǎo

island (the superstructure of an aircraft carrier, on the starboard side of the deck)

马达加斯加岛
mǎ dá jiā sī jiā dǎo

Madagascar

加拉帕戈斯群岛
jiā lā pà gē sī qún dǎo

Galapagos Islands

堪察加半岛
kān chá jiā bàn dǎo

Kamchatka Peninsula, far-eastern Russia

阿拉伯半岛
ā lā bó bàn dǎo

Arabian Peninsula

新不列颠岛
xīn bù liè diān dǎo

New Britain, island of northeast Papua New Guinea

中印半岛
zhōng yìn bàn dǎo

Indochina

脑岛
nǎo dǎo

insula

查戈斯群岛
chá gē sī qún dǎo

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

千岛酱
qiān dǎo jiàng

thousand island dressing

吉之岛
jí zhī dǎo

JUSCO, Japanese chain of hypermarkets

波拉波拉岛
bō lā bō lā dǎo

Bora Bora, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia

桑托里尼岛
sāng tuō lǐ ní dǎo

Santorini (volcanic island in the Aegean sea)

千岛湖
qiān dǎo hú

Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang, aka Xin'an River Reservoir, created as part of a large hydroelectric project in 1959

流球群岛
liú qiú qún dǎo

the Ryukyu or Luchu Islands (including Okinawa)

吕宋岛
lǚ sòng dǎo

Luzon Island, north Philippines

苏门答腊岛
sū mén dá là dǎo

Sumatra (one of the Indonesian islands)

巽他群岛
xùn tā qún dǎo

Sunda Islands (Malay archipelago)

南极洲半岛
nán jí zhōu bàn dǎo

the Antarctic Peninsula (jutting out towards South America)

黄岛
huáng dǎo

Huangdao district of Qingdao city 青島市|青岛市, Shandong

史丹顿岛
shǐ dān dùn dǎo

Staten Island, borough of New York City

安全岛
ān quán dǎo

traffic island; pedestrian refuge

克里木半岛
kè lǐ mù bàn dǎo

Crimea

鹿儿岛
lù ér dǎo

Kagoshima, Japanese island prefecture off the south coast of Kyushu

蛇岛蝮
shé dǎo fù

Snake island viper (Gloydius shedaoensis), feeding on migrating birds

济州岛
jì zhōu dǎo

Jeju Island special autonomous province, South Korea, a World Heritage site