Chinese Character 船 Meanings and components.

Form

船

Meaning

船 meaning[3] in English

Variant Of 船[Chuan2].

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 船 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are boat (舟) , and (㕣)

Its radical[1] is: 舟 (zhou1) which means: Boat, .舟zhou1boat

In cangjie it is written with HYHNR

How to write 船

To write船chuan2variant of … you should write a combination of 舟zhou1boat , 㕣yan3 arranged in a 吅 shape:

舟 + 㕣 = 船

船 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 船 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 船, looks as follow:

船
Pinyin:chuan2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 船[Chuan2]
舟
Pinyin:zhou1
Meaning[3]: Boat
㕣
Pinyin:yan3 Shape:吕
八
Pinyin:ba1
Meaning[3]: Eight . 8
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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