The Chinese Radical: 舟


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Meaning
boat    舟

Explanation It shows the image of a rowing boat without a stern, with two people, oars laid across and the bow at the top.

Used in these characters:
HSK 3
a boat, vessel, ship
chuán
Left: vessel/boat 舟 (rowing boat with two persons 丶丶), right: eight 八 and opening 口 (= porthole / scuttle)
A vessel with eight portholes is a boat.
HSK 3
manner, kind, sort, class, way
bān
Left: boat 舟 (rowing boat with two persons 丶丶), right: 殳 (battle axe in a hand 又)
When you build a boat using a battle axe in your hand, it happens in a: particular manner.
HSK 3
dish, plate, tray, board, to coil
pán
Top: boat/ship 舟 (rowing boat with two persons 丶丶), below: plate, bowl 皿
It is floating like a boat or a bowl: this dish.
HSK 3
to transport, to (re-)move, relocate
bān
Left: hand 扌, right: manner, kind 般 (Boat 舟 is built with a battle-axe in the hand 又 in a particular manner.)
Hands are used in a certain manner for the transport.
HSK 4
boat, navigation, to fly
háng
Left: ship 舟 (rowing boat with two persons 丶丶), right: overbearing 亢 (person with a broad neck and wearing a cap.). Here he is a sturdy sailor / navigator
On board is the navigator. He is navigating.
HSK 6
cabin, the hold of a ship or airplane
cāng
Left: boat 舟 (rowing boat with two persons 丶丶), right: warehouse 仓 (Under the pointed roof 人 is a roll of cloth 㔾 in the warehouse.)
As the boat has a "warehouse", there is a cabin in the airplane.
HSK 6
classifier for ships
sōu
Left: boat 舟 (rowing boat with two persons 丶丶), right: old gentleman 叟 (supports himself with hands E, 彐 on a stick 丨, which serves as 3rd hand 又)
Next to the boats is an old gentleman, counting them.
HSK 6
warship
jiàn
Left boat 舟 (rowing boat with two persons 丶丶), right to see 见/見 (An eye 目 on legs 儿 = looking around)
A boat that is well visible (because of its size) is the warship.
HSK 6
boat
zhōu

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

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

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