船

Alternative forms
The top-right part can be either 八 or 几, depending on the script; Japanese: 船, mainland China: 船, traditional Chinese: 船, Korean: 船; see Han unification.

Glyph origin
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Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

interprets Old Chinese as a nominal derivate of the verb. The  states that this word was commonly used in western China, but, by Han times, it had completely displaced the earlier, used in central and eastern China.

Alternatively, the Proto-Sino-Tibetan root could be a loan from 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬, perhaps a derivate of 🇨🇬, see 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) watercraft; vessel (including ships, boats, sailing ships, hovercrafts; sometimes including submarines)
 * 2) an object with a shape or function similar to watercraft
 * 3)  scholarship
 * 4)  alcohol cup
 * 5)  to carry by watercraft
 * 6)  button
 * : Chuan
 * 1)  to carry by watercraft
 * 2)  button
 * : Chuan

Synonyms




Descendants
Others:

Kanji

 * 1) ship, vessel, large ship

Etymology
Inherited from, from.

Noun

 * 1) boat

Etymology
Inherited from, from.

Noun

 * 1) boat

Etymology
Inherited from, from.

Noun

 * 1) boat

Han character

 * 1) boat

Etymology
Inherited from, from.

Noun

 * 1) boat

Etymology
Inherited from, from.

Noun

 * 1) boat