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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *船* | 船* | *船
boat / vessel / ship / CL: 條|条, , 隻|只
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *舩* | 舩* | *舩
variant of
HSK 2
to row a boat / rowing; boating / small boat
HSK 3
steamship; steamer; steamboat / CL:
HSK 4
spaceship / spacecraft / dirigible / airship
HSK 6
pleasure boat / cruise ship
HSK 7-9
fishing boat / CL: 條|条
HSK 7-9
sailboat
HSK 7-9
to sail a boat / to navigate
to charter a ship
barge / pontoon / landing stage
to become seasick
shipwreck / sunken boat / sinking ship
to set sail
cargo ship / freighter
spaceship
pirate ship / fig. venture of dubious merit / criminal gang / reactionary faction
dragon boat (used at 端午, the Dragon Boat Festival)
warship
ice breaker
to meet with unexpected failure (idiom) / to fail miserably (where failure was not expected)
to punt / to pole a boat
to have a foot in both camps / to have a bet each way / to be having an affair
to load cargo onto a ship
lit. to stand with each foot in a different boat (idiom) / fig. to have it both ways / to run after two hares / (especially) to have two lovers at the same time
hovercraft / air cushion vehicle
to scull / to row a boat
fishing boat / same as 漁船|渔船
to embark / to travel by ship / to ferry
target ship
whaler; whaling vessel
hydrofoil
to capsize / (fig.) to suffer a setback or defeat
lifeboat
tugboat / boat towed by a tugboat / to tow a boat
shipbuilding
spaceship; spacecraft
ship with several decks / turreted junk
barge; lighter
catamaran
container ship
ship (e.g. providing regular passenger service)
seagoing ship
merchant ship
ferry
lit. to push the boat with the current / fig. to take advantage of the situation for one's own benefit
wooden boat
passenger ship
man-of-war / naval vessel / warship
ice breaker (ship)
(oil) tanker / tank ship
swingboat
steamboat / steamship
boat or raft adapted to handle rapids / white-water raft
mailboat / ocean liner
warship
mother ship
to get on the boat
armed vessel (of ancient times)
to transfer ships
boat
lit. to board a pirate ship (idiom) / fig. to associate with criminals
to abandon ship
Los Angeles Clippers (NBA team)
to charter a ship / to take a vessel on rent
"turtle ship", armored warship used by Koreans in fighting the Japanese during the Imjin war of 1592-1598 壬辰倭亂|壬辰倭乱
patrol vessel / cutter
Chinese treasure ship, a type of large sailing ship in the fleet of Ming dynasty admiral Zheng He 鄭和|郑和
Space Shuttle, US spacecraft system (1981-2011)
spaceship / spacecraft
survey vessel
inflatable boat
boat propelled by a yuloh (a single sculling oar)
dredger
naval surveillance vessel; maritime patrol boat
ferry ship
steamboat
ice breaker / same as 冰船
Shenzhou (spacecraft)
boat used for collecting river sludge (to use as a fertilizer)
survey ship
boat
supply ship
lit. to mistakenly board a pirate ship / to embark on a hopeless adventure
boat race / racing ship or boat
dragon-boat race
shipwreck
transport ship
armored ship
sailing


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