艘

艘 U+8258, 艘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8258 ← 艗 [U+8257] CJK Unified Ideographs 艙 → [U+8259]

Translingual

Han character

艘 (Kangxi radical 137, 舟+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹卜竹難水 (HYHXE), four-corner 2744₇, composition ⿰舟叟)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1012, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30511
• Dae Jaweon: page 1470, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3064, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8258

Chinese

trad.		艘
simp. #		艘
alternative forms		㮴 䑹

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (叟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
㮴	*suːw
艘	*suːw, *sɯːw
嫂	*suːwʔ
瞍	*sɯːw, *suːʔ
謏	*slɯːwʔ, *suːʔ, *suːs, *srɯwɢ
叜	*sluːʔ
叟	*suːʔ
傁	*suːʔ
廋	*suːʔ, *sru
醙	*suʔ, *sru
遚	*sʰrus
餿	*sru
搜	*sru
颼	*sru
溲	*sru, *sruʔ
鎪	*sru
獀	*sru
鄋	*sru
螋	*sru, *sro
騪	*sru
瘦	*srus

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *suːw, *sɯːw): semantic 舟 (“boat”) + phonetic 叟 (OC *suːʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sōu, sāo

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄡ, ㄙㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau² / sau¹

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): só / só͘ / so

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sou² / so¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland; variant in Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sou
    • Wade–Giles: sou¹
    • Yale: sōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sou
    • Palladius: соу (sou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /soʊ̯⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan; variant in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sao
    • Wade–Giles: sao¹
    • Yale: sāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sau
    • Palladius: сао (sao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sau² / sau¹
    • Yale: sáu / sāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau² / sau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo² / seo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯³⁵/, /sɐu̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: só
    • Tâi-lô: só
    • Phofsit Daibuun: soir
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /so⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: só͘
    • Tâi-lô: sóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sor
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /sɔ⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: so
    • Tâi-lô: so
    • Phofsit Daibuun: soy
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /so³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sou² / so¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sóu / so
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sou⁵²/, /so³³/

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• Middle Chinese: sew

Rime
Character	艘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	蕭 (93)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	蘇彫切
Baxter	sew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/seu/
Pan Wuyun	/seu/
Shao Rongfen	/seu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɛw/
Li Rong	/seu/
Wang Li	/sieu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/sieu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	siu1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*suːw/, /*sɯːw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	艘	艘
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	12064	12066
Phonetic component	叟	叟
Rime group	幽	幽
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	騷	蕭
Old Chinese	/*suːw/	/*sɯːw/
Notes	見說苑，說文從木	見說苑

Definitions

艘

1. Classifier for boats, ships, vessels.

   一艘小船  ―  yī sōu xiǎochuán  ―  a small boat

2. (literary) ship

Synonyms

• (classifier for vessels):

Dialectal synonyms of 艘 (“(classifier for boats/ships)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		艘, 隻, 條
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	條, 隻
	Taiwan	條, 隻
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	條, 隻
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	個, 隻
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	隻, 條
	Wuhan	隻, 條
	Guilin	條
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	條
	Hefei	隻
Cantonese	Guangzhou	隻
	Hong Kong	隻, 架, 部
	Yangjiang	隻
Gan	Nanchang	隻
Hakka	Meixian	條
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	條
	Heyuan (Bendihua)	條
	Wengyuan	條, 隻
	Liannan	條
	Jiexi	條
	Zhao'an (Xiuzhuan)	條
	Changting	隻
	Wuping (Yanqian)	隻
	Ninghua	條
	Ningdu	隻
	Tonggu (Sandu)	條
	Ganzhou (Panlong)	條
	Dayu	隻
	Hong Kong	條
	Mengshan (Xihe)	條
	Luchuan	條
Huizhou	Jixi	隻
Jin	Taiyuan	隻
Northern Min	Jian'ou	條
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	條
Southern Min	Xiamen	隻, 頂
	Quanzhou	隻, 頂
	Jinjiang	隻
	Yongchun	隻
	Zhangzhou	隻, 頂
	Manila (Hokkien)	隻
	Chaozhou	隻
	Shantou	隻
	Jieyang	隻
	Pontianak (Teochew)	條
	Haikou	隻
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	架
Wu	Suzhou	隻
	Wenzhou	隻
Xiang	Changsha	隻, 條
	Shuangfeng	隻, 條

Compounds

• 客艘
• 征艘
• 文艘
• 楚艘
• 海艘
• 漕艘
• 貢艘 / 贡艘
• 連艘 / 连艘
• 運艘 / 运艘
• 遊艘 / 游艘
• 龍艘 / 龙艘

Japanese

Kanji

艘

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. boat

Readings

• Go-on: しゅ (shu)^{←しゆ (syu, historical)}、そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}、そう (sō)
• Kun: ふね (fune, 艘)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
艘
そう Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 艘 (MC sew).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [so̞ː]

Counter

艘(そう) • (-sō) ^{←さう (-sau)?}

1. small boats

References

• “^▲艘”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

艘 (eum 소 (so))

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Vietnamese

Han character

艘: Hán Nôm readings: sưu

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