Read Edit View history 㠀 dǎo HSK6 (same as 島) island Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Variant of 島. Character Evolution Seal Shuowen ~100 AD ▼ More ▲ Less 說文解字 《說文》:“,海中往往有山可依止曰。” Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical images Academia Sinica Etymology Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)