島

島 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹日卜山 (HAYU), four-corner 2772₇, composition ⿹㇯鳥灬山)

• 𫮖, 𡻅, 搗, 𰜬, 﨩, 槝, 𪵕, 𫌈, 𦃭, 𭗃

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 312, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8108
• Dae Jaweon: page 612, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 775, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5CF6

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 島 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• 島 (Cantonese)
• 島 (Gan)
• dō̤ (Eastern Min)
• tó (Southern Min)
• 島 (Wu)

Historical forms of the character 島
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tuːwʔ) : phonetic 鳥 (OC *tɯːwʔ) + semantic 山 (“mountain”).

Reminiscent of Mon လ္ကံ (from Proto-Mon-Khmer *tkɔɔʔ), but probably not related (Schuessler, 2007).

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

島

1. island (Classifier: 座 m; 個／个 m c)

   孤島／孤岛  ―  gūdǎo  ―  isolated island

   群島／群岛  ―  qúndǎo  ―  archipelago

   半島／半岛  ―  bàndǎo  ―  peninsula

   海南島／海南岛  ―  Hǎinán Dǎo  ―  Hainan island

2. a surname: Dao

• “島”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01120

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Kun: しま (shima, 島, Jōyō)

/sima/ → /ɕima/

From Old Japanese, ultimately from Proto-Japonic *sima.

Possibly related to Baekje 斯麻 (*syema, “island”) and Middle Korean 셤 (syem), whence modern Korean 섬 (seom, “island”).^[1]

• (Tokyo) しま (Odaka – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

島(しま) • (shima) 

1. an island (land surrounded by water)
2. one's domain, territory, turf
3. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

島(しま) • (Shima) 

1. a surname

/tau/ → /tɔː/ → /toː/

From Middle Chinese 島 (MC tawX).

島(とう) • (tō) ^{←たう (tau)?}

1. island

From Middle Chinese 島 (MC tawX).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

島

Wikisource

島 (eumhun 섬 도 (seom do))

1. hanja form^? of 도 (“island”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: しまー (shimā, 島)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *sima, from Proto-Japonic *sima.

• IPA^(key): /ɕimaː/

島(しまー) (shimā) 

1. a community
2. an island

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: すぃま (sima, 島)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *sima, from Proto-Japonic *sima.

• IPA^(key): /ss̩ma/

島(すぃま) (sima) 

1. a community
2. an island

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• On (unclassified): とー (tō)
• Kun: しま (shima, 島, Jōyō)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *sima, from Proto-Japonic *sima. Cognate with Japanese 島 (shima).

• IPA^(key): /ɕima/

島(しま) (shima) 

1. a community
2. an island

From Proto-Japonic *sima.

島 (sima) (kana しま)

1. an island
2. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• Japanese: 島 (shima)

島: Hán Việt readings: đảo (都(đô)老(lão)切(thiết))^[1][2][3][4]
島: Nôm readings: đảo^[1][3], láo^[5]

1. chữ Hán form of đảo (“island”).

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: しぃま (sïma, 島)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *sima, from Proto-Japonic *sima.

• IPA^(key): /sɨma/

島(しぃま) (sïma) 

1. a community
2. an island

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: ちま (chima, 島)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *sima, from Proto-Japonic *sima.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕima/

島(ちま) (chima) 

1. a community
2. an island