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Mythic Mandarin

划船 (huá chuán): meaning and stroke order

划船 (huá chuán) means to row a boat, rowing; boating, small boat.

划船

Simplified
划船
Traditional
划船 (same form)
Pinyin
huá chuán

Stroke order of 划船

划

  • huá to row; to paddle
  • huá to cut; to slash
  • huà to delimit; to transfer
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 劃

Stroke by stroke

船

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 划船

  1. huá chuán
    • to row a boat
    • rowing; boating
    • small boat

Radicals of the characters

划
Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 6 strokes · 戈 on the left, 刂 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.

划船 in our stories

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  • 最后，他们向当地的划船俱乐部借了八条普通的船，自己在船头装上了纸做的龙头。

    zuìhòu tāmen xiàng dāngdì de huáchuán jùlèbù jiè le bā tiáo pǔtōng de chuán zìjǐ zài chuántóu zhuāng shàng le zhǐ zuò de lóngtóu

    In the end they borrowed eight ordinary boats from a local rowing club and fixed paper dragon heads to the bows themselves.

    From the story Dragon boats in Hamburg HSK 5

Stories using 划船

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).