船 — Chinese character
船
chuán
ship, boat, vessel
- Pinyin
- chuán
- Radical
- 137 ⾈ (Boat)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 舟 几 口
- Formation
- pictophonetic — ship; meaning component 舟
- Japanese
- 船 as a kanji
Common words with 船
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 船只 (船隻) | chuán zhī | ship; boat |
| 船长 (船長) | chuán zhǎng | captain (of a boat); skipper |
| 船舶 | chuán bó | shipping; boats |
| 飞船 (飛船) | fēi chuán | spaceship; spacecraft |
| 船员 (船員) | chuán yuán | sailor; crew member |
| 渔船 (漁船) | yú chuán | fishing boat; 条 (tiáo) |
| 船队 (船隊) | chuán duì | fleet (of ships) |
| 造船 | zào chuán | shipbuilding |
| 轮船 (輪船) | lún chuán | steamship; steamer; steamboat; measure word: 艘 (sōu) |
| 小船 | xiǎo chuán | boat |
| 太空船 | tài kōng chuán | spaceship |
| 帆船 | fān chuán | sailboat |
English words written with 船
船 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 4
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.