Chinese symbol for “rowing”
划船
huá chuán
to row a boat; rowing; boating; small boat
The closest CC-CEDICT match for rowing is 划船 (huá chuán), defined as: to row a boat; rowing; boating; small boat.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “rowing”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 划船.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 计划 (計劃) | jì huà | plan; project |
| 规划 (規劃) | guī huà | to draw up a plan; to map out a program; a plan; a program |
| 划分 (劃分) | huà fēn | to divide up; to partition |
| 行政区划 (行政區劃) | xíng zhèng qū huà | administrative subdivision |
| 策划 (策劃) | cè huà | to plot; to scheme |
| 区划 (區劃) | qū huà | subdivision (e.g. of provinces into counties) |
| 船只 (船隻) | chuán zhī | ship; boat |
| 船长 (船長) | chuán zhǎng | captain (of a boat); skipper |
See also: Japanese symbol for “rowing”.
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.