Chinese symbol for “boats”
船舶
chuán bó
shipping; boats
The closest CC-CEDICT match for boats is 船舶 (chuán bó), defined as: shipping; boats.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 船舶.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 船只 (船隻) | chuán zhī | ship; boat |
| 船长 (船長) | chuán zhǎng | captain (of a boat); skipper |
| 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) |
| 舶来品 (舶來品) | bó lái pǐn | (old) imported goods; foreign goods |
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.