Pinyin: chuán

boat; ship

Example sentence

我们坐船去那儿。

Wǒmen zuò chuán qù nà'er.

We go there by boat.

What 船 means

(chuán) is a Chinese word meaning “boat; ship”. It belongs to the Places & Transport topic and appears at HSK 2, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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