船 chuán
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chuán
noun
boat; ship; watercraft
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Concept: Means of Transportation 交通工具
Notes: For example, 渔妇的船就停在河边 'The fisherwoman's boat stopped at the side of the river.' (Ye Shengtao, 1999, p. 24; CC-CEDICT '船'; Guoyu '船' 1; Unihan '船') -
chuán
noun
a vessel
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: A vessel in the shape of a boat; for example, 太空船 spaceship (CC-CEDICT '船'; Guoyu '船' 1; Unihan '船')
Contained in
- 船只(船隻) ships; vessels
- 晕船(暈船) to become seasick
- 船坞(船塢) (maritime) dock
- 趸船(躉船) barge; pontoon; landing stage
- 船底座 Carina
- 上贼船(上賊船) to board a pirate ship; to associate with criminals
- 顺水推船(順水推船) to push the boat with the current; to take advantage of the situation for one's own benefit
- 飞船(飛船) spaceship
- 碎冰船 ice breaker
- 租船 to charter a ship; to take a vessel on rent
- 戈船 spear ship
- 船尾 the back end of a ship; aft
- 茶船 a saucer
- 粘船鱼(粘船魚) shark sucker (Echeneis naucrates)
- 太空船 spaceship
- 船帆 sail
- 邮船(郵船) mailboat; ocean liner
- 捕鲸船(捕鯨船) whaler; whale catcher
- 汽船 steamboat
- 借风使船(借風使船) to make use of wind to power a ship; to use external capital for a business
- 船籍 ship's registry
- 船老大 coxswain; steersman; boatswain (bo'sun)
- 弃船(棄船) to abandon ship
- 船身 hull; body of a ship
- 小洞不堵沉大船 A small hole not plugged will sink a great ship.
- 船缆(船纜) ship's hawser; rigging
- 赛船(賽船) boat race; racing ship or boat
- 行船 to sail a boat; to navigate a boat
- 龙船(龍船) dragon boat
- 草船借箭 using straw boats to borrow arrows
- 赛龙船(賽龍船) dragon-boat race
- 船舵 rudder; helm of a ship
- 船首 ship's bow
- 脚踏两只船(腳踏兩隻船) to have a foot in both camps; to have a bet each way; to be having an affair
- 铁壳船(鐵殼船) a steel hulled ship
- 客船 passenger ship
- 船夫 boatman
- 船主 ship's captain; owner of ship
- 船员(船員) sailor; crew member
- 船籍港 ship's port of registry
- 船长(船長) captain (of a boat); skipper
- 渔船(漁船) fishing boat
- 驳船(駁船) barge; lighter
- 船帮(船幫) gunwale
- 渡轮船(渡輪船) ferry ship
- 漕船 a canal boat
- 造船所 shipyard
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Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第八十回 Chapter 80 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 83
- 第一百十一回 Chapter 111 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 48
- 第十九回 Chapter 19 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 40
- 第三十七回 Chapter 37 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 39
- 第四十九回 Chapter 49 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 39
- 第五十一回 Chapter 51 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 37
- 第九回 Chapter 9 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 35
- 第二十回 Chapter 20 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 30
- 第四十一回 Chapter 41 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 28
- 第一百十三回 Chapter 113 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 25
Collocations
- 船人 (船人) 船人救之 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十七 雜言 Chapter 17: Open Discussion — count: 12
- 船中 (船中) 桓公與宋夫人飲船中 — Guanzi 管子, 匡君大匡第十八 Chapter 18: Correcting a Ruler from Making a Grave Error — count: 7
- 船行 (船行) 合浦船行可五月 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十八下 地理志 Volume 28b: Treatise on Geography 2 — count: 7
- 船欲 (船欲) 是謂猶釋船欲蹍水也 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十九 脩務訓 Chapter 19: Cultivation of Effort — count: 4
- 用船 (用船) 君子用船 — Canon of Supreme Mystery 太玄經, Full Text — count: 4
- 方船 (方船) 方船濟乎江 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十四 詮言訓 Chapter 14: Explanation of Sayings — count: 3
- 车船 (車船) 民以車船載穀入關者 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八 宣帝紀 Volume 8: Annals of Emperor Xuan — count: 3
- 益发船 (益發船) 乃益發船 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《孝武本紀》 Annals of the Xiaowu Emperor — count: 3
- 船算 (船算) 乃因孔僅言船算事 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《平準書》 Equalization — count: 2
- 船粟 (船粟) 得越船粟 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《南越列傳》 Treatise on the Nanyue — count: 2