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船 kanji
ship, boat
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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On readings
セン
Kun readings
ふねふな-
Variant forms
舩Words with 船
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —裸用船bareboat charter
- —商船学校merchant-marine school
- —商船大学mercantile marine college
- —南船北馬constant travelling; constant traveling; being on the move; restless wandering
- —本船渡しfree on board (i.e. seller pays to have goods placed on a ship); FOB
- —傭船契約chartering ships
- —御朱印船shogun-authorized trading vessel (authorised)
- —船側渡しfree alongside ship; FAS
- —水中翼船hydrofoil; hydrofoil-equipped watercraft
- —汽船積みshipment by steamer
- —原子力船nuclear(-powered) ship (vessel)
- —護送船団convoy (of ships)
- —ゴム風船rubber balloon
- —沈船ブイwreck buoy
- —球状船首bulbous bow (on a ship to reduce drag)
- —風船ガムbubblegum
- —巡航客船cruise ship
- —風船爆弾fire balloon (experimental weapon launched by Japan during World War II); balloon bomb
- —菱垣廻船large Japanese junk
- —船員保険seamen's insurance