Africa was once called the Dark Continent.
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大陆
Traditional: 大陸
dà lù
HSK 3.0 · 4
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dà lù · daai6 luk6 (Jyutping)
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Character breakdown
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
Africa is a continent; Greenland is not.
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