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Chinese symbol for “cruiser”

巡洋舰
xún yáng jiàn
Traditional: 巡洋艦
cruiser (warship); battle cruiser

The closest CC-CEDICT match for cruiser is 巡洋舰 (xún yáng jiàn), defined as: cruiser (warship); battle cruiser.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

巡 xún
to cruise, to inspect, to patrol
radical 162 ⾡ · 6 strokes
洋 yáng
sea, ocean; western, foreign
radical 85 ⽔ · 9 strokes
舰 jiàn
warship
radical 137 ⾈ · 10 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 巡洋舰.

WordPinyinMeaning
巡逻 (巡邏)xún luóto patrol
巡抚 (巡撫)xún fǔinspector-general of province in Ming and Qing times
巡视 (巡視)xún shìto inspect (a site); (of a dignitary) to visit; to go on an inspection tour; to survey (a scene); to scan with one's eyes
巡回 (巡迴)xún huíto go around; to roam; to tour
巡演xún yǎn(theater etc) to tour; to be on tour; to give itinerant performances (abbr. for 巡回演出 (xún huí yǎn chū))
巡航xún háng(military) to patrol (airspace or waters); (technical) to cruise; to maintain steady speed
海洋hǎi yángocean
大洋dà yángocean; (old) silver dollar
舰队 (艦隊)jiàn duìfleet; measure word: 支 (zhī)

See also: Japanese symbol for “cruiser”.

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.