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船

chuán

ship

Phonosemantic compound. 舟 represents the meaning and 公 represents the sound.

Components
舟 meaning component

舟  Meaning component

zhōu

  

boat

㕣 sound component

㕣  Sound component

yǎn

  

a marsh at the foot of the hills

Evolution

船 Bronze script Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze script

Early Warring States (~400 BC)
船 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
船 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
船 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
船 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

船  

chuán

ship, boat, vessel; boat; vessel; ship; CL:條|条[tiáo],艘[sōu],隻|只[zhī]

船 (舩) 

chuán

variant of 船[chuán]

Most common words with 船
Freq.
Word
Meaning

船

boat

船长

skipper

飞船

airship

船员

sailor

船票

ship ticket

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə.lo[n]

zywen

chuán

boat


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 29.4410% of movies

642nd most common character in movies

614th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+8239

Shuowen

“船，舟也。从舟，鉛省聲。”


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