たいりく
Meanings
Adjective (の)
Noun
1. continent
Noun
2. continental Asia (esp. mainland China)
3. continental Europe
Kanji used
large
land
Pitch accent
いりく
いりく
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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.
This vast continent is abundant in fossil fuels.
Africa is a continent, but Greenland is not.
They crossed the vast continent on foot.
Britain is separated from the Continent by the Channel.
What is the continent with the most people living on it in the world?
Columbus sailed farther west to look for a new continent.