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Mythic Mandarin

沉船 (chén chuán): meaning and stroke order

沉船 (chén chuán) means shipwreck, sunken boat, sinking ship.

沉船

Simplified
沉船
Traditional
沉船 (same form)
Pinyin
chén chuán

Stroke order of 沉船

沉

  • chén variant of 沉[chen2]
  • chén to submerge; to immerse
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 沈

Stroke by stroke

船

  • chuán variant of 船[chuan2]
  • chuán boat; vessel
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 舩

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 沉船

  1. chén chuán
    • shipwreck
    • sunken boat
    • sinking ship

Radicals of the characters

沉
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 7 strokes · 氵 on the left, 冗 on the right
船
Radical 舟 (Kangxi radical 137) · 11 strokes · 舟 on the left, 㕣 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

沉船 in our stories

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  • 更让人吃惊的是，就在沉船前一个月，公司给这条旧船买了一份高额保险。

    gèng ràng rén chījīng de shì jiù zài chénchuán qián yí gè yuè gōngsī gěi zhè tiáo jiù chuán mǎi le yí fèn gāo'é bǎoxiǎn

    Even more shocking, just a month before the sinking, the company had bought a large insurance policy on this old ship.

    From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 沉船

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).