Boat in Chinese (Mandarin): 船 (chuán)

Use it in a sentence

The characters in 船

• 船

  Boat. 舟, an old word for boat, is on the left.

  11 strokes

Second tone, rising. To go by boat is 坐船 (zuò chuán), and a sailboat is 帆船 (fānchuán).

More examples with 船

• 小船在水上。

  Xiǎo chuán zài shuǐ shang.

  The little boat is on the water.

• 我们坐船去小岛。

  我們坐船去小島。

  Wǒmen zuò chuán qù xiǎo dǎo.

  We take a boat to the little island.

How to write 船 in Chinese

Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.