Hanja Analyzer
船

船 — seon

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
배 선
Romanization
seon
English
ship, boat, vessel
Mandarin
chuán
Japanese on'yomi
セン, エン, ゼン
Japanese kun'yomi
ふね ふな-
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 2
Newspaper frequency
#713 of 2,500
Strokes
11
Radical
舟 (137, 5 residual)
Unicode
U+8239

Parts that make up 船

  • 舟 배 주 통나무를 파낸 배배와 물길
  • 㕣 갈라져 흐르는 모양‘연’ 계열의 소리

How 船 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 船 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 舟, 㕣.

Korean example words with 船

  • 선내船內 Korean gloss: 배의 안
  • 선상船上 Korean gloss: 배의 위
  • 선중船中 Korean gloss: 배의 안
  • 소선小船 Korean gloss: 작은 배
  • 승선乘船 Korean gloss: 배를 탐
  • 왜선倭船 Korean gloss: 일본 배
  • 발선發船 Korean gloss: 배가 떠남
  • 선적船籍 Korean gloss: 배의 국적
  • 선주船主 Korean gloss: 배의 주인
  • 선창船窓 Korean gloss: 배의 창문
  • 선체船體 Korean gloss: 배의 몸체
  • 적선賊船 Korean gloss: 해적의 배

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 船

  • 船ふね ship; boat; watercraft
  • 漁船ぎょせん fishing boat
  • 船長せんちょう ship's captain; skipper; length of a ship
  • 船舶せんぱく vessel; ship; shipping
  • 造船ぞうせん shipbuilding
  • 船橋ふなばし pontoon bridge; floating bridge; bridge (of a ship)
  • 艦船かんせん warships and other vessels; naval vessels
  • 風船ふうせん balloon (toy or decoration); balloon (hot-air or gas)
  • 客船きゃくせん passenger boat
  • 船出ふなで setting sail; putting out to sea; starting anew
  • 船体せんたい hull
  • 船員せんいん sailor; seaman; seafarer

Other hanja read “선”

Other hanja with radical 舟

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