船
舩Meanings
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- 1.variant of 船[chuán]
- 1.boat
- 2.vessel
- 3.ship
- 4.CL:条[tiáo],艘[sōu],只[zhī]
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- 1.watercraft; vessel (including ships, boats, sailing ships, hovercrafts; sometimes including submarines) (Classifier: 條／条 m; 艘 m; 隻／只 m c mn mn-t; 架 c)
- 2.an object with a shape or function similar to watercraft
- 3.scholarship
- 4.alcohol cup
- 5.to carry by watercraft
- 6.button
- 7.a surname, Chuan
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɦljon): semantic 舟 (“boat”) + phonetic 㕣 (OC *lon). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-lawŋ (“boat”). Compare Burmese လောင်း (laung:, “long and narrow boat”), and Mizo lawng (“boat or ship”). Sagart (1999) interprets Old Chinese 船 (OC *ɦljon) as a nominal derivate of the verb 沿 (OC *lon, “to go downstream a river”). The Fangyan states that this word was commonly used in western China, but, by Han times, it had completely displaced the earlier 舟 (OC *tjɯw), used in central and eastern China. Alternatively, the Proto-Sino-Tibetan root could be a loan from Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₂lu(u)ŋ ~ *d₂l(u)əŋ (“boat”), whence Mon ဂၠုၚ် (klɜ̀ŋ, “canoe, small boat”), perhaps a derivate of Proto-Mon-Khmer *luŋh ~ *luuŋh ~ *ləŋh (“to hollow, excavate, bore”), see Khmer លុង (lung, “to dig a hole”) and Vietnamese trũng (“concave”) (Sidwell, 2006; Schuessler, 2007).
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Example sentences
船进港了。
The ships reached port.
船起了火。
The ship went up in flames.
船逆流航行。
The boat is going against the current.
我的船是小的。
My boat is small.
還能看到那船。
The boat can still be seen.
海盜們上了船。
The pirates boarded the ship.
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