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  *帮* | 帮* | *帮
to help / to assist / to support / for sb (i.e. as a help) / hired (as worker) / side (of pail, boat etc) / outer layer / upper (of a shoe) / group / gang / clique / party / secret society
HSK 1
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  *船* | 船* | *船
boat / vessel / ship / CL: 條|条, , 隻|只
HSK 2
to row a boat / rowing; boating / small boat
HSK 3
ship / boat / vessel
HSK 6
captain (of a boat) / skipper
HSK 6
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  *搭* | 搭* | *搭
to put up / to build (scaffolding) / to hang (clothes on a pole) / to connect / to join / to arrange in pairs / to match / to add / to throw in (resources) / to take (boat, train) / variant of
HSK 6
Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)
HSK 6
shipping / boats
HSK 7-9
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  *幢* | 幢* | *幢
classifier for buildings (Taiwan pr. [chuang2]) / (archaic) curtain hung over boat or carriage windows
HSK 7-9
old age / very / eldest child in a family / leader of a group / boss / captain of a boat / leader of a criminal gang
HSK 7-9
fishing boat / CL: 條|条
HSK 7-9
to park (a car etc) / to moor (a boat etc) / to leave sth (in a place)
HSK 7-9
pleasure boat / cruise ship
HSK 7-9
dragon boat / imperial boat
HSK 7-9
cross a river in the same boat (idiom); fig. having common interests / obliged to collaborate towards common goals
HSK 7-9
lit. a notch on the side of a boat to locate a sword dropped overboard (idiom); fig. an action made pointless by changed circumstances
HSK 7-9
the tide rises, the boat floats (idiom); fig. to change with the overall trend / to develop according to the situation
HSK 7-9
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  *叶* | 叶* | *叶
leaf / page / lobe / (historical) period / classifier for small boats
(of a naval vessel) to cruise / to patrol / (of ducks, boats etc) to move about on a lake or river etc
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  *舟* | 舟* | *舟
boat
(of trains) down (i.e. away from the capital) / (of river boats) to travel downstream / to issue (a document) to lower bureaucratic levels / (of writing on the page) vertical, proceeding from top to bottom
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  *湾* | 湾* | *湾
bay / gulf / to cast anchor / to moor (a boat)
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  *航* | 航* | *航
boat / ship / craft / to navigate / to sail / to fly
lit. the timber has been turned into a boat already (idiom) / fig. what is done cannot be undone
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  *驶* | 驶* | *驶
(of a vehicle, horse etc) to go fast; to speed / (of a vehicle) to run; to go / (of a boat) to sail
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  *棹* | 棹* | *棹
oar (archaic) / scull / paddle / to row / a boat
driving force; impetus; thrust (of a boat or airplane engine); repelling force
to share the same interests (idiom) / to be closely related / to be in the same boat
Miluo city in Hunan / Miluo river in Hunan, famous for Dragon Boat festival
sail / sailing boat
rowing boat / racing row-boat
(of trains) up (i.e. towards the capital) / (of river boats) to go against the current / to submit (a document) to higher authorities
to go boating
shipwreck / sunken boat / sinking ship
boat
to be a newcomer / just off the boat
to drive (a car) / to fly (an aircraft) / to pilot (a boat)
lit. in the same boat under wind and rain (idiom); fig. to stick together in hard times
boat race / racing ship or boat / rowing (sport)
to get on the boat
to buy or upgrade a ticket after boarding a train, boat etc / to buy a ticket for a show after having sat down in the theater
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  *舫* | 舫* | *舫
2 boats lashed together / large boat
hard seat (on trains or boats)
(of a boat) to float; to drift; to lie at anchor / (fig.) to roam; to lead a wandering existence
wooden boat
soft seat (on trains or boats)
a small bag full of fragrance used on Dragon boat Festival
decorated pleasure boat
(literary) small boat; skiff
lit. navigating a boat against the current (idiom) / fig. in a tough environment (one needs to work hard)
to punt / to pole a boat
to sail a boat / to navigate
fast boat
(of a boat) to reach the shore / to pull toward shore / close to shore / landfall
like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back (idiom)
brothers in hardship (idiom) / fellow sufferers / in the same boat
ferry boat
to be jolted around (car on a bumpy road, boat on a rough sea, aircraft experiencing turbulence) / (fig.) to undergo a rough experience
tugboat / boat towed by a tugboat / to tow a boat
navy vessel / (coast guard) patrol boat
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  *橹* | 橹* | *橹
scull (single oar worked from side to side over the stern of a boat)
dragon boat (used at 端午, the Dragon Boat Festival)
deck (of a boat etc)
lit. to push the boat with the current / fig. to take advantage of the situation for one's own benefit
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  *篙* | 篙* | *篙
pole for punting boats
boatman / boat builder
boat tracker; boat puller / broker; middleman
rowing competition / boat race / swimming competition (e.g. to cross river or lake)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *舺* | 舺* | *舺
boat / Taiwan pr. [jia3]
boatman / boat dweller
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *艄* | 艄* | *艄
stern of boat
gondola (Venetian boat) (loanword)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *舣* | 舣* | *舣
to moor a boat to the bank
motor boat
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *舲* | 舲* | *舲
small boat with windows
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  *舡* | 舡* | *舡
boat / ship
side of boat or ship / gunwale
people who live and make a living on boats
to row a boat
Marble Boat, famous pavilion
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *舳* | 舳* | *舳
poopdeck / stern of boat
rowboat; small boat / oar; paddle / thin rod used to control a curtain etc
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  *艖* | 艖* | *艖
raft / boat
to scull / to row a boat
sleeping cabin on a boat or train
lit. to live on a boat / to drift from place to place (idiom)
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  *淦* | 淦* | *淦
(archaic) water leaking into a boat / historically, the name of a river in Jiangxi / (neologism) to fuck (euphemistic variant of 幹|干)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *艭* | 艭* | *艭
boat
stern of boat
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *艕* | 艕* | *艕
two boats fastened side by side
(of a bus, a train, a boat) to start off
lit. boat made of lily magnolia wood / poetic term for boat
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *橃* | 橃* | *橃
large boat / old variant of
conveyance (car, boat, aircraft etc); vehicle / (fig.) medium; platform; vector / (Tw) (Taiwan pr. [zai3 ju4]) a consumer's device (smart card or mobile app barcode etc) that can be scanned at checkout to save the receipt 統一發票|统一发票 to a cloud account
(literary) a type of warship used in the Spring and Autumn period; magnificent large boat
(of a vehicle, boat etc) to travel to; to head for
fishing boat / same as 漁船|渔船
to scull (with a single oar, usually mounted on the stern of the boat)
lit. using straw boats to borrow arrows (idiom, from 三國演義|三国演义) / fig. to use others' manpower and resources for one's own ends
to race dragon boats

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