Question

船 ふね、ふな- ship, boat 3 713 11 137 ふね・ふねへん 形声 Phonetic A boy floats his toy boat in a gully and imagines it as an immense ship.

Accepted Answer

セン ふ 船(ふね): (1) ship; boat; watercraft; vessel; steamship (2) tank; tub; vat; trough (3) counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)漁船(ぎょせん): fishing boat船舶(せんぱく): ship造船(ぞうせん): shipbuilding風船(ふうせん): balloon (esp. small, toy variety)汽船(きせん): steamship; steamboat; steamer船便(ふなびん): surface mail (ship) 2 舟: boat; ship㕣: a marsh at the foot of the hills; name of a river 舟 6 (none) ship Aargh, hard to keep this separate from boat. How about this: the phrase "shape up or ship out!" This phrase originally meant that a soldier had better get his act together, or else face being shipped off into a combat zone. Here we see a poor WW-I soldier who has been shipped off to a combat zone. He´s riding in the boat overseas to fight in the trenches (gulley).

Kanji	船
Onyomi	セン
Kunyomi	ふね、ふな-
Nanori	ふ
English	ship, boat
Examples	船(ふね): (1) ship; boat; watercraft; vessel; steamship (2) tank; tub; vat; trough (3) counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi) 漁船(ぎょせん): fishing boat 船舶(せんぱく): ship 造船(ぞうせん): shipbuilding 風船(ふうせん): balloon (esp. small, toy variety) 汽船(きせん): steamship; steamboat; steamer 船便(ふなびん): surface mail (ship)
JLPT Level	3
Jouyou Grade	2
Frequency	713
Components	舟: boat; ship 㕣: a marsh at the foot of the hills; name of a river
Number of Strokes	11
Kanji Radical	舟
Radical Number	137
Radical Strokes	6
Radical Reading	ふね・ふねへん
Traditional Form	(none)
Classification	形声 Phonetic
Keyword	ship
Koohii Story 1	A boy floats his toy boat in a gully and imagines it as an immense ship.
Koohii Story 2	Aargh, hard to keep this separate from boat. How about this: the phrase "shape up or ship out!" This phrase originally meant that a soldier had better get his act together, or else face being shipped off into a combat zone. Here we see a poor WW-I soldier who has been shipped off to a combat zone. He´s riding in the boat overseas to fight in the trenches (gulley).

Boat Ship Toy Phrase Soldier Shipped Combat Zone