州
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. state (of the US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.); province (e.g. of Canada); county (e.g. of the UK); region (e.g. of Italy); canton; oblast
2. continent
Other spellings
洲
Kanji used
Kanji in other spellings
Pitch accent
しゅう
Used in vocabulary
関東八州
the eight Edo-period provinces of Kanto (Sagami, Musashi, Awa, Kazusa, Shimousa, Hitachi, Kouzuke and Shimotsuke)
Noun
Examples53
南部
Traveling to the southern states during the winter will be costlier than it is now.
アメリカ
There are fifty states in America.
アメリカ
Laws differ from state to state in the United States.
ＩＢＭ
International Business Machines Corporation is headquartered in Armonk, New York.
ニューヨーク
New York State is almost as large as Greece.
テキサス
Texas borders on Mexico.