The kanji 舟: meaning, readings and stroke order
舟
- Meaning
- boat
- On reading
- シュウ shuu
- Kun reading
- ふね fune、ふな* funa
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 舟 boat
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- thuyền nhỏ (chu)
- Japanese
- ちいさな ふね。
- Korean
- 배, 조각배 (주)
- Chinese
- 小船、舟
Readings, words and example sentences
シュウ shuu · on reading · less common
舟運
transport by boat
むかしは この 川の 舟運が 盛んでした。
Long ago, boats carried lots of goods on this river.
ふね fune · kun reading
舟
small boat
小さな 舟で 川を わたります。
I cross the river in a small boat.
* marks a less common reading, usually learnt from junior high on.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.