渔 yú
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 鱼 fish
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
渔船
yúchuán
fishing boat
Characters in this word
船 chuán
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 舟 — boat, ship
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 台风临近时，港口要求所有渔船提前返航。 Táifēng línjìn shí, gǎngkǒu yāoqiú suǒyǒu yúchuán tíqián fǎnháng. As the typhoon approached, the port required all fishing boats to return early.
- 清晨，几艘渔船慢慢驶出港口，去海上捕鱼。 Qīngchén, jǐ sōu yúchuán mànmàn shǐ chū gǎngkǒu, qù hǎishàng bǔ yú. Early in the morning, several fishing boats slowly left the harbor to fish at sea.
- 村里的渔民靠着一艘旧渔船养活了一家人。 Cūn lǐ de yúmín kào zhe yì sōu jiù yúchuán yǎnghuó le yì jiā rén. The fisherman in the village supported his whole family with one old fishing boat.
Related words
- 渔民 yúmín fisherfolk; fishermen
- 船 chuán boat; ship
- 划船 huáchuán to row a boat
- 轮船 lúnchuán steamship
- 船只 chuánzhī ship, vessel
- 船舶 chuánbó ships; vessels
- 帆船 fānchuán sailing boat; sailboat
- 飞船 fēichuán spacecraft; airship
- 水涨船高 shuǐzhǎngchuángāo as water rises, the boat rises; one thing rises with another
- 游船 yóuchuán pleasure boat; excursion boat
- 织 zhī to weave; to knit
- 瓦 wǎ tile