島
Meanings
Suffix
1. Island (in place names)
Suffix
Noun
2. insula; island; islet (sometimes read しま)
Kanji used
Pitch accent
とう
Used in vocabulary
Examples9
ナポレオン
Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena.
小笠原
You can get only NHK in the Ogasawara islands.
私たち
The plane we were aboard was flying over the Pacific toward Wake Island at a height of 3,000 meters.
すばらしい
It's worth going to Bali because you can see the amazing sunset.
木曜
Thursday Island is situated in the Torres Strait between Australia's northernmost Cape York and New Guinea.
彼
He abandoned his family and went to live in Tahiti.