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)
American continent; the Americas
Eurasian continent; Eurasia
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile; ICBM
North American continent
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
continental state (e.g. Australia)
Mu (legendary lost continent)
intercontinental ballistic missile; ICBM
theory of continental drift
prewar Japanese adventurer (political activist) in mainland China
continental; continentality
civil law; continental law
Eurasia; Eurasian Continent
(European) gray wolf (carnivore, Canis lupus lupus); grey wolf
imperial army order
stabilized continent; platform
Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans)
Examples (9 in total)
Europe is a continent.
There are seven continents on the earth.
Australia is the smallest continent in the world.