(chuán) - boat, ship in Mandarin
chuánTraditional: 船
Translation
boat, ship
Word origin
船 is a phono-semantic compound: 舟 (zhōu, boat) is the meaning radical and the right-hand element 㕣 (yǎn) supplies the sound. The boat radical makes the meaning, vessel, clear.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 舟 (zhōu, boat radical) + 㕣 (yǎn, phonetic)
Stroke order
船
Examples
。
We will go by boat.
河艘。
There is a boat on the river.
。
He likes to travel by ship.
艘。
That ship is sailing to Hong Kong.
。
This boat sails very slowly.
船 (chuán) means boat, ship. It is used as a noun in everyday Mandarin speech.
Where this fits
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 船.
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