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船

船

See also: 舩

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

The top-right part can be either 八 or 几, depending on the script; Japanese: 船, Chinese: 船; see Han unification

Han character

船 (radical 137 舟+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹卜金口 (HYCR) or 竹卜竹弓口 (HYHNR), four-corner 28460, composition ⿰舟几口)

Derived characters

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 1010, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30407
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1468, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3060, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8239

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 船

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (沿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
船 *ɦljon
舩 *ɦljon
沿 *lon
鉛 *lon
鈆 *kljoŋ, *lon

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɦljon) : 舟 ‎(“boat”) + 㕣.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 船
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰuan³⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰuan²⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂʰuan⁴⁵/
/t͡sʰuan⁴⁵/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰuã⁴²/
Qingdao /t͡sʰuã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰuan⁴²/
Xi'an /p͡fʰã²⁴/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂʰuã²⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰuan⁵³/
Lanzhou /p͡fʰɛ̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʰuan⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡sʰuan²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡sʰuan³¹/
Guiyang /t͡sʰuan²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʰuã̠³¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰuaŋ²⁴/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰʊ̃⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰuæ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡sʰuɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰʰuæ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /zø²³/
Suzhou /zø¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡zz̩ʷõ²¹³/
Wenzhou /jy³¹/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰye⁴⁴/
Tunxi /ɕyɛ⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕyẽ¹³/
Xiangtan /d͡ʑyẽ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /sɵn⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /son¹¹/
Taoyuan /ʃon¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /syn²¹/
Nanning /syn²¹/
Hong Kong /syn²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /suan³⁵/
/t͡sun³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /suŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /yiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡suŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /tun³¹/
Rime
Character 船
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 船 (27)
Final (韻) 仙 (78)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 食川切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʑiuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʑʷiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʑjuæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʑwian/
Li
Rong		 /d͡ʑiuɛn/
Wang
Li		 /d͡ʑĭwɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /d͡ʑʰi̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shuán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 船
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chuán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ zywen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Cə.lo[n]/
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 船
Reading # 1/1
No. 14278
Phonetic
component		 沿
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 船
Old
Chinese		 /*ɦljon/

Definitions

船

  1. ship; boat; vessel   (Classifier: 條／条 m; 艘 m; 隻／只 m)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

船

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. ship, vessel, large ship

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
船
ふね
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

船 ‎(hiragana ふね, romaji fune)

  1. ship, vessel, larger ship
See also
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
船
ふな
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

船 ‎(hiragana ふな, romaji funa)

  1. ship, vessel, larger 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

船 • ‎(seon) (hangeul 선, revised seon, McCune-Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

船 (thuyền)

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