entries → 歐洲
TSUMUGU · TOCFL 3 (est.) · 詞
歐洲 word · TOCFL 3 (est.)
歐洲 =
ㄡ ㄓㄡ · Ōuzhōu
proper noun — Europe (the continent)

字源 FORM — what the parts do

Europe (歐洲)Ōurenders the sound of "Europe"; the graph's old sense was to retch, left behind
continent (大洲)zhōu氵 water around the land; 州 zhōu gives the sound, from a river islet scaled up to a continent
歐洲,歐洲的歐,亞洲的洲。

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

一塊四面環水()的大地,借了「Europe」的音()來叫——
A great body of land ringed by water (洲), called by the borrowed sound of "Europe" (歐).
字源
關 · Related
YàzhōuAsia — the same , the continent next doorŌuměiEurope and America — the same