chuán

boat

Variant of .

Evolution

舩 Bronze script Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze script

Early Warring States (~400 BC)
舩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
舩 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
舩 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

 

chuán

boat, ship, vessel

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chuán

variant of [chuán]

Most common words with 舩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

boat

船长

skipper

飞船

airship

船员

sailor

船票

ship ticket

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 29.4410% of movies

642nd most common character in movies

614th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+8229

Shuowen

“船,舟也。从舟,鉛省聲。”


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