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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
- —外車船paddle steamer
- —旅客船passenger ship
- —紙風船paper balloon
- —貿易船trading vessel
- —漁船員fisherman
- —紅毛船foreign ship (originally only of Dutch ships, but later referring to all foreign ships)
- —遭難船wrecked ship; ship in distress
- —風船葛balloon vine (Cardiospermum halicacabum); love-in-a-puff
- —衛星船manned satellite; manned orbiter
- —消防船fire boat; fireboat
- —工作船factory ship; repair ship; spy ship
- —水風船water balloon
- —風帆船Western style sailboat
- —給水船water boat; boat transporting water
- —弁財船large Japanese junk
- —鉄甲船iron-reinforced warships built by Oda Nobunaga
- —運搬船freighter; cargo ship; carrier
- —風船玉toy balloon
- —船首像figurehead (on a ship)
- —風船鰻whiptail gulper (any gulper eel of family Saccopharyngidae)