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)
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.