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
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “spaceship”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 太空船 | tài kōng chuán | spaceship |
| 宇宙飞船 (宇宙飛船) | yǔ zhòu fēi chuán | spaceship; spacecraft |
| 太空飞船 (太空飛船) | tài kōng fēi chuán | spaceship; spacecraft |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 飞船.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 飞机 (飛機) | fēi jī | airplane; measure word: 架 (jià) |
| 飞行 (飛行) | fēi xíng | to 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 yuán | pilot; aviator |
| 飞弹 (飛彈) | fēi dàn | (Tw) missile; stray bullet |
| 船只 (船隻) | chuán zhī | ship; boat |
| 船长 (船長) | chuán zhǎng | captain (of a boat); skipper |
| 船舶 | chuán bó | shipping; 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.