The kanji 船: meaning, readings and stroke order
船
- Meaning
- ship, boat
- On reading
- セン sen
- Kun reading
- ふね fune、ふな* funa
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 舟 boat
- Level
- Level 2 · grade 2
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- con thuyền, tàu (thuyền)
- Japanese
- ふね。
- Korean
- 배 (선)
- Chinese
- 船
Readings, words and example sentences
セン sen · on reading
船長
ship's captain
船長の 話を 聞きました。
I listened to the captain's story.
ふね fune · kun reading
船
ship, boat
海に 大きな 船が 出ました。
A big ship sailed out to sea.
* 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.