たいりく
Meanings
Adjective (の)
Noun
1. continent
It was the shape of the continents of this world.
Noun
2. continental Asia (esp. mainland China)
More and more tourists are coming from mainland China.
3. continental Europe
Back then, Britain kept its distance from the Continent.
Pitch accent
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Composed of
land; shore
Used in vocabulary (38 in total)
New World (esp. the Americas, but also Australasia)
Dark Continent (i.e. Africa)
Old World (i.e. Asia, Africa, Europe)
American continent; the Americas
African continent
Eurasian continent; Eurasia
Continental Congress (US)
continental state (e.g. Australia)
subcontinent
civil law (legal system); continental law
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile; ICBM
North American continent
transcontinental
the five continents; Asia, Africa, Europe, America and Australia; Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and South America
South American continent
continental; calm; not worried with unimportant details
Mu (legendary lost continent)
Asian Continent
intercontinental ballistic missile; ICBM
supercontinent
theory of continental drift
Berlin Decree (1806)
Japanese adventurer (from the Meiji era to the end of WWII) who roamed mainland China and other parts of Asia, engaging in political activities, espionage, smuggling, etc.
continental plate
continental Europe
continental; continentality
continental philosophy
(European) gray wolf (carnivore, Canis lupus lupus); grey wolf
Eurasia; Eurasian Continent
continental crust
Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans)
imperial army order
stabilized continent; platform
Peninsular Japonic (postulated extinct language)
Examples (22 in total)
Europe is a continent.
It is traveling back and forth between the continent and the sea.
More and more tourists are coming from mainland China.