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Chinese symbol for “spaceship”

飞船
fēi chuán
Traditional: 飛船
spaceship; spacecraft; dirigible; airship

The closest CC-CEDICT match for spaceship is 飞船 (fēi chuán), defined as: spaceship; spacecraft; dirigible; airship.

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

飞 fēi
to fly, to dart; high
radical 183 ⾶ · 3 strokes
船 chuán
ship, boat, vessel
radical 137 ⾈ · 11 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “spaceship”

WordPinyinMeaning
太空船tài kōng chuánspaceship
宇宙飞船 (宇宙飛船)yǔ zhòu fēi chuánspaceship; spacecraft
太空飞船 (太空飛船)tài kōng fēi chuánspaceship; spacecraft

Related words

Other words that share a character with 飞船.

WordPinyinMeaning
飞机 (飛機)fēi jīairplane; measure word: 架 (jià)
飞行 (飛行)fēi xíngto fly; flight
起飞 (起飛)qǐ fēi(of an aircraft or rocket) to take off; to lift off; (fig.) (of an enterprise etc) to start to develop rapidly
飞行员 (飛行員)fēi xíng yuánpilot; aviator
飞弹 (飛彈)fēi dàn(Tw) missile; stray bullet
船只 (船隻)chuán zhīship; boat
船长 (船長)chuán zhǎngcaptain (of a boat); skipper
船舶chuán bóshipping; boats

See also: Japanese symbol for “spaceship”.

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.

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