たいりく
Meanings
Adjective (の)
Noun
1. continent
Noun
2. continental Asia (esp. mainland China)
3. continental Europe
Pitch accent
いりく
いりく
Composed of
land; shore
Used in vocabulary (34 in total)
New World (esp. the Americas, but also Australasia)
Dark Continent (i.e. Africa)
Old World (i.e. Asia, Africa, Europe)
Examples (9 in total)
Europe is a continent.
There are seven continents on the earth.
Australia is the smallest continent in the world.