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Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 137 舟+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹月卜戈 (HBYI), four-corner 27440)

  1. Kangxi radical #137, (boat).

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 1008, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30350
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1466, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3055, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+821F

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*rtɯːw, *rtɯːw, *tjiw
*tɯw
*tɯw
*tɯw
*tjɯw

Pictogram (象形) – a boat.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (23)
Final () (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕɨu/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕiu/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cuw/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiu/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhōu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhōu
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyuw ›
Old
Chinese
/*tu/
English boat

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 17504
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tjɯw/

Definitions

  1. (historical vehicles) Dugout canoe
  2. (vehicles) Similarly-shaped boats; a small barge.
  3. (vehicles, inexact) Any boat or ship.

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. boat, ship, small ship

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
ふね
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana ふね, romaji fune)

  1. boat, ship, small ship
See also

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
ふな
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana ふな, romaji funa)

  1. boat, ship, small ship
See also

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

(ju) (hangeul , revised ju, McCune-Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(chu, châu)

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