艦

See also 舰

Translingual

simpl.		舰
trad.		艦

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 舟 + phonetic 監.

Han character

艦 (radical 137 舟+14, 20 strokes, cangjie input 竹卜尸戈廿 (HYSIT), 竹卜尸一廿 (HYSMT), four-corner 2841₇, composition ⿰舟監)

1. warship

References

• KangXi: page 1013, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30571
• Dae Jaweon: page 1471, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3069, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8266

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Cantonese

Hanzi

艦 (simplified 舰, Yale laam6)

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Japanese

Kanji

艦 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: かん (kan)
• Kun: いくさぶね (ikusabune)

Compounds

• 母艦 (ぼかん, bokan, “mothership”)
  • 航空母艦 (こうくうぼかん, kōkūbokan, “aircraft carrier”)

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Korean

Hanja

艦 (hangeul 함, revised ham, McCune-Reischauer ham, Yale ham)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

艦 (simplified 舰, pinyin jiàn (jian4), Wade-Giles chien⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

艦 (hạm)