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Meaning of 船
Pinyin
chuán
Radical
舟
Strokes
11
Definition
a boat / vessel / ship
Usage
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船
chuán
名词 (Noun)
1. 水上交通工具。
[En.] Water transportation tool; boat; ship.
2. 水上交通工具的应用。
[En.] Application of water transportation tools: 如：舶. 只. 舱. 帆.
[En.] For example: vessel, number, compartment, sail.
本义: 水运工具。古称舟。
[En.] Primary meaning: Water transport tool; anciently known as "舟" (boat).
造字法: 形声。
[En.] Character composition: Phonetic and semantic.
同本义
1. 同本义 ([En.] boat; ship).
2. 空间交通工具 ([En.] vessel).
引证:
1. 《说文》：船，舟也。段注：“古人言舟，汉人言船，毛以今语释古，故云舟即今之船也。”
[En.] "Shuōwén": Boat is referred to as "舟". The commentary states: "Ancient people used '舟', Han people used '船', the meaning is the same, so '舟' is today's '船'."
2. 《说文义证》：小曰舟，大曰船。
[En.] "Shuōwén Yìzhèng": Small is called '舟', large is called '船'.
3. 《庄子·渔父》：有渔父者，下船而来。
[En.] "Zhuangzi - The Fisherman": A fisherman came down from the boat.
4. 陶潜《桃花源记》：便舍船，从口入。
[En.] Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Spring": So they left the boat and entered from the mouth.
5. 张继《枫桥夜泊》：姑苏城外寒山寺，夜半钟声到客船。
[En.] Zhang Ji's "Night Mooring by Maple Bridge": Outside Suzhou City, the cold mountain temple, the sound of the bell reaches the guest boat at midnight.
例句:
如: 船坞(船厂;停泊、修理或制造船只的地方); 船把板(船主); 船不漏针(比喻绝无遗失); 船多不碍路(数量虽多，但互不妨碍); 船横芦篚嚣(轩然大波;闹出乱子); 船人(船夫。也作舩人); 船头(船的前部;船老大)。
[En.] For example: shipyard (ship factory; place for docking, repairing, or manufacturing ships), ship owner, "the ship does not leak a needle" (metaphorically meaning nothing is lost), "many ships do not obstruct the road" (a large quantity does not interfere with each other), "disturbance on the boat", boatman (also known as 舩人), bow (the front of the ship; captain).
运输工具:
用船运载 (【英】：transport by boat).
[En.] Transport by boat.
引句:
韩愈《平淮西碑》：蔡人告饥，船粟往哺。
[En.] Han Yu's "Ping Huai Xi Bei": The people of Cai complained of famine, and the boat returned to carry grain.
the tide rises, the boat floats (idiom); fig. to change with the overall trend / to develop according to the situation
sides of a ship / ship's railing / fig. the dividing line between shipboard expenses and onshore freight charges
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Input Method for 船
Pinyin
chuan2
Wubi
temk|tuwk
Cangjie
hycr
Zhengma
pyqj
Four Corner
27461
Unicode
U+8239
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