Chinese symbol for “sailing”
航班
háng bān
(scheduled) flight; (scheduled) sailing
The closest CC-CEDICT match for sailing is 航班 (háng bān), defined as: (scheduled) flight; (scheduled) sailing.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “sailing”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 航班.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 航空 | háng kōng | aviation |
| 航线 (航線) | háng xiàn | air or shipping route |
| 航空公司 | háng kōng gōng sī | airline; measure word: 家 (jiā) |
| 导航 (導航) | dǎo háng | (lit. and fig.) to navigate |
| 航天 | háng tiān | space flight |
| 上班 | shàng bān | to go to work; to be on duty |
| 下班 | xià bān | to finish work; to get off work; next service (train, bus etc) |
| 加班 | jiā bān | to work overtime |
See also: Japanese symbol for “sailing”.
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.