船

See also 舩

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 舟 (“boat”) + 㕣

Han character

船 (radical 137 舟+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹卜金口 (HYCR), 竹卜竹弓口 (HYHNR), four-corner 2846₀, composition ⿰舟几口)

1. ship, boat, vessel

Note: The top-right part can be either 儿, or 几.

Derived characters

• 磐

Related characters

• 鉛

References

• KangXi: page 1010, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30407
• Dae Jaweon: page 1468, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3060, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8239

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Cantonese

Hanzi

船 (Yale syun4)

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Japanese

Noun

船 (hiragana ふね, romaji fune)

1. ship, vessel, larger ship

See also

• 舟 (ふね, fune): boat, ship, small ship

Synonyms

• 船舶

Kanji

船 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. ship, vessel, large ship

Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: ふね (fune)

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Korean

Hanja

船 (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune-Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

船 (pinyin chuán (chuan2), Wade-Giles ch'uan²)

Compounds

• 船头 (the bow of a ship or boat)
• 龙船 (dragon boat)
• 渡船 (ferry)
• 救生船 (lifeboat)
• 双体船 (catamaran)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

船 (POJ chûn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

船 (thuyền)