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The character 洲 is a phono-semantic compound, formed by adding the water radical 氵 to the left of 州. The component 州 serves as both the phonetic element and a semantic contributor, originally depicting landmasses or islets within a river's currents. As the standalone character 州 came to mean administrative regions or provinces, the water radical was added to preserve the original geographical sense in the new character 洲. Its core meaning refers to land surrounded by water, historically for river islands, and it now universally denotes the world's major continents.
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亚洲有很多国家。
我喜欢欧洲的古老建筑。
他们计划去非洲旅行。
大洋洲包括澳大利亚和新西兰。
这是一次穿越南极洲的探险。
北美自由贸易区促进了北美洲的经济。
沙漠中的绿洲给了旅人希望。
洲际导弹的射程非常遥远。