漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons
船: ship, boat
JLPT N311 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
- 舟boat(meaning)
- 㕣(sound)
舟 carries the meaning · 㕣 gives the sound
11 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
センsen · on'yomi · in compounds
- 船舶せんぱくship [n.]
- 船長せんちょうship's captain
- 汽船きせんsteamship
- 造船ぞうせんshipbuilding
- 風船ふうせんballoon
ふねfune · kun'yomi · on its own
- 船ふねship, boat, watercraft, vessel
- 屋形船やかたぶねpleasure boat, houseboat
- 助け船たすけぶねlifeboat, help
ふな-funa- · kun'yomi
- 船乗りふなのりsailor, seaman
- 船旅ふなたびtrip by boat
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
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Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)舟 boat (meaning) + 㕣 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 船 (rev. 94593560), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Ship (舟) + swamp/marsh (沿). A specialized "vessel" designed to navigate through "water" or along the coast—now the standard kanji for any ship or boat.”
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Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · chuán
Same form: 船 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 船 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 船 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin chuán most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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