The Chinese Radical: 舟


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Meaning
boat    舟

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 3
a boat, vessel, ship
chuán
Left: vessel/boat (rowing boat with two persons ), right: eight and opening (= porthole / scuttle)
A vessel with eight portholes is a boat.
JLPT HSK 3
manner, kind, sort, class, way
bān
Left: boat (rowing boat with two persons ), right: (battle axe in a hand )
When you build a boat using a battle axe in your hand, it happens in a: particular manner.
JLPT HSK 3
dish, plate, tray, board, to coil
pán
Top: boat/ship (rowing boat with two persons ), below: plate, bowl
It is floating like a boat or a bowl: this dish.
JLPT HSK 3
to transport, to (re-)move, relocate
bān
Left: hand , right: manner, kind (Boat is built with a battle-axe in the hand in a particular manner.)
Hands are used in a certain manner for the transport.
JLPT HSK 4
boat, navigation, to fly
háng
Left: ship (rowing boat with two persons ), right: overbearing (person with a broad neck and wearing a cap.). Here he is a sturdy sailor / navigator
On board is the navigator. He is navigating.
JLPT HSK 6
cabin, the hold of a ship or airplane
cāng
Left: boat (rowing boat with two persons ), right: warehouse (Under the pointed roof is a roll of cloth in the warehouse.)
As the boat has a "warehouse", there is a cabin in the airplane.
JLPT HSK 6
classifier for ships
sōu
Left: boat (rowing boat with two persons ), right: old gentleman (supports himself with hands E, on a stick , which serves as 3rd hand )
Next to the boats is an old gentleman, counting them.
JLPT HSK 6
warship
jiàn
Left boat (rowing boat with two persons ), right to see /見 (An eye on legs = looking around)
A boat that is well visible (because of its size) is the warship.
JLPT HSK 6
boat
zhōu

Image of a rowing boat without rear with two persons, transverse oars and a rope at the front.
JLPT HSK 6
sea-going vessels, ship

Left: boat/ship (rowing boat with two persons ), right: white (The shine of the sun makes it white)
Not just a boat, but a white ship.
JLPT HSK 6
speed boat, small ship, vessel
tǐng
From left: boat (rowing boat with two persons ), judicial court (The movement of a scholar with hat [= judge] to the court.)
The boat of the movement of only one scholar (with hat) is a (small) speed boat.
JLPT no HSK
red, pellet, powder, cinnabar
dān
A simplified var. of boat/ship
A simple boat is red.
JLPT no HSK
helm, rudder
duò
Left: boat (rowing boat with two persons ), right: it (lifeless) (Here: [boat-] bridge , sitting person )
On the boat is a sitting person on the bridge at the: helm/rudder.
JLPT no HSK
side of a ship or an aircraft
xián
Left: boat , right: mysterious, occult (part of magnet: 磁, where a upper bracket holds threads with hanging stones that are mysterious.)
The ship has mysterious sides.
JLPT no HSK
coral
shān
Left: king, jade , right: book, booklet (here: two boats )
For this 'jade' (its extraction) you need boats, the: Coral.
JLPT no HSK
collapse
tān
Left: earth , right: red, pellet 丹
At the earth (= the shore) is a broken 丹 boat , because it collapsed.
JLPT no HSK
firm, stable, rock
pán
Top: manner, kind (The boat is built with a battle-axe in hand in particular manner.), bottom: stone
In a certain manner, stones are firm.
JLPT no HSK
scar, mark on the skin
bān
Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), right: manner, kind (Boat is built with a battle-axe / in hand in particular manner.)
A disease brings in certain manner also a scar.

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