しま
Meanings
Noun
1. Kurile Islands
Kanji used
thousand
island
Pitch accent
しま
Composed of
1,000; thousand
island; one's territory (e.g. of a sex worker, organized crime gang); one's turf
Used in vocabulary (5 in total)
Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875); Russo-Japanese treaty in which Japan exchanged Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands
woolly geranium (Geranium erianthum)