半島 (bun3 dou2 | ban4 dao3) : peninsula

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半島

bun3 dou2

ban4 dao3

peninsula - a strip of land surrounded mostly by water, but is still connected by dry land to the mainland

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This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

半島 / 半岛

This word has been viewed 1675 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by tym on 5th Aug 2004 12:09 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 19:03

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半 bun3 - half
島 dou2 - [n] island; isle

13 compounds containing this word:

朝鮮半島 - Korean peninsula
半島電視台 - Al-Jazeera Television
堪察加半島 - Kamchatka peninsula
南極洲半島 - the Antartic Peninsula (jutting out towards South America)
中南半島 - Indo-China Peninsula
馬來半島 - Malay Peninsula
半島酒店 - The Peninsula Hotel
雷州半島 - Leizhou Peninsula
阿拉伯半島 - Arabian Peninsula
山東半島 - Shandong Peninsula
巴爾干半島 - Balkan penninsula
半島國際學校 - International School of the Penninsula
遼東半島 - Liaodong Peninsula

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*** The simplified equivalent of this word has not been verified by any editors, so it may not be fully accurate ***

* The simplified equivalent of this word has not been verified by any editors, so it may not be fully accurate *