Kana: ふね

boat; ship

Example sentence

私たちは船で島へ行きます。

わたしたちはふねでしまへいきます。

We go to the island by boat.

What 船 means

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

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