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舟

舟

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

  1. Kangxi radical #137, ⾈ ‎(“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.
 舟

Glyph origin

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

Pictogram (象形) – a boat.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 舟
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 職流切
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 舟
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 舟
Reading # 1/1
No. 17504
Phonetic
component		 舟
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 周
Old
Chinese		 /*tjɯw/

Definitions

舟

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

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

舟

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. boat, ship, small ship

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
舟
ふね
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

舟 ‎(hiragana ふね, romaji fune)

  1. boat, ship, small ship
See also

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
舟
ふな
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

舟 ‎(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

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

舟 (chu, châu)

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