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Mythic Mandarin

小船 (xiǎo chuán): meaning and stroke order

小船 (xiǎo chuán) means boat.

小船

Simplified
小船
Traditional
小船 (same form)
Pinyin
xiǎo chuán

Stroke order of 小船

小

  • xiǎo small; tiny
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

船

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 小船

  1. xiǎo chuán
    • boat

Radicals of the characters

小
Radical 小 (Kangxi radical 42) · 3 strokes
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.

小船 in our stories

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  • 女娃从小就向往大海。有一天，她一个人划着小船去东海玩，没想到突然起了大风，小船被巨浪打翻，她再也没有回来。

    Nǚwá cóngxiǎo jiù xiàngwǎng dàhǎi yǒu yì tiān tā yí gè rén huá zhe xiǎochuán qù Dōng Hǎi wán méi xiǎngdào tūrán qǐ le dà fēng xiǎochuán bèi jùlàng dǎfān tā zài yě méiyǒu huílai

    From childhood Nüwa longed for the sea. One day she rowed alone out onto the Eastern Sea to play; unexpectedly a gale blew up, a huge wave overturned the boat, and she never came back.

    From the story Jingwei fills the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 小船

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).