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  *幫* | 幫* | *幫
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
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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
ship / boat / vessel
HSK 6
captain (of a boat) / skipper
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *幢* | 幢* | *幢
classifier for buildings (Taiwan pr. [chuang2]) / (archaic) curtain hung over boat or carriage windows
HSK 7-9
pleasure boat / cruise ship
HSK 7-9
dragon boat / imperial boat
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
shipping / boats
HSK 7-9
cross a river in the same boat (idiom); fig. having common interests / obliged to collaborate towards common goals
HSK 7-9
to park (a car etc) / to moor (a boat etc) / to leave sth (in a place)
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
fishing boat / CL: 條|条
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *灣* | 灣* | *灣
bay / gulf / to cast anchor / to moor (a boat)
faucet; tap / bicycle handlebar / chief; boss (esp. of a gang) / (referring to a company) leader; front-runner / figurehead on the prow of a dragon boat 龍船|龙船
lit. to break the cauldrons and sink the boats (idiom); fig. to cut off one's means of retreat / to burn one's boats
wooden boat
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  *葉* | 葉* | *葉
leaf / page / lobe / (historical) period / classifier for small boats
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  *駛* | 駛* | *駛
(of a vehicle, horse etc) to go fast; to speed / (of a vehicle) to run; to go / (of a boat) to sail
driving force; impetus; thrust (of a boat or airplane engine); repelling force
sail / sailing boat
(of trains) up (i.e. towards the capital) / (of river boats) to go against the current / to submit (a document) to higher authorities
navy vessel / (coast guard) patrol boat
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *舟* | 舟* | *舟
boat
ferry 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
boat race / racing ship or boat / rowing (sport)
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  *舫* | 舫* | *舫
2 boats lashed together / large boat
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *航* | 航* | *航
boat / ship / craft / to navigate / to sail / to fly
to be jolted around (car on a bumpy road, boat on a rough sea, aircraft experiencing turbulence) / (fig.) to undergo a rough experience
shipwreck / sunken boat / sinking ship
to be a newcomer / just off the boat
like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back (idiom)
fast boat
lit. to push the boat with the current / fig. to take advantage of the situation for one's own benefit
dragon boat (used at 端午, the Dragon Boat Festival)
decorated pleasure boat
brothers in hardship (idiom) / fellow sufferers / in the same boat
(of a boat) to float; to drift; to lie at anchor / (fig.) to roam; to lead a wandering existence
submerged piles installed to prevent the passage of boats / (fig.) informer / spy
to punt / to pole a boat
lit. to stand with each foot in a different boat (idiom) / fig. to have it both ways / to run after two hares / (especially) to have two lovers at the same time
lit. when the boat reaches the bridge, it will pass underneath without trouble (proverb) / fig. everything will be all right
(of a bus, a train, a boat) to start off
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
to share the same interests (idiom) / to be closely related / to be in the same boat
realgar wine (traditionally drunk during the Dragon Boat Festival 端午節|端午节)
lit. in the same boat under wind and rain (idiom); fig. to stick together in hard times
Tanka, boat-dwelling people of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan, and Zhejiang provinces
Dragon Boat Festival (the 5th day of the 5th lunar month)
fishing boat / same as 漁船|渔船
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  *篙* | 篙* | *篙
pole for punting boats
Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of 5th lunar month)
boat tracker; boat puller / broker; middleman
boatman / boat dweller
lit. boat made of lily magnolia wood / poetic term for boat
soft seat (on trains or boats)
torpedo boat
to steer a boat
deck (of a boat etc)
to scull / to row a boat
Miluo city in Hunan / Miluo river in Hunan, famous for Dragon Boat festival
attendant on an airplane, train, boat etc
a small bag full of fragrance used on Dragon boat Festival
(of a boat) to reach the shore / to pull toward shore / close to shore / landfall
(literary) small boat
tugboat / boat towed by a tugboat / to tow a boat
to scull (with a single oar, usually mounted on the stern of the boat)
side of boat or ship / gunwale
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  *艖* | 艖* | *艖
raft / boat
to row a boat
to go boating
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *艤* | 艤* | *艤
to moor a boat to the bank
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  *艄* | 艄* | *艄
stern of boat
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  *艗* | 艗* | *艗
bow of a Chinese boat
Wu and Yue in the same boat (idiom); fig. cooperation between natural rivals / to collaborate towards a common end / in the same boat together
(literary) a type of warship used in the Spring and Autumn period; magnificent large boat
person who lives and makes a living on a boat / boatman / boat dweller
lit. the timber has been turned into a boat already (idiom) / fig. what is done cannot be undone
to carry a boat or to overturn a boat (idiom); fig. The people can support a regime or overturn it.
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  *舲* | 舲* | *舲
small boat with windows
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  *艭* | 艭* | *艭
boat
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  *櫓* | 櫓* | *櫓
scull (single oar worked from side to side over the stern of a boat)
lit. to push the boat with the current / fig. to take advantage of the situation for one's own benefit
(of a train, boat, plane etc) to head in the direction of
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *舡* | 舡* | *舡
boat / ship
(literary) small boat; skiff
rowing competition / boat race / swimming competition (e.g. to cross river or lake)
Marble Boat, famous pavilion
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *舳* | 舳* | *舳
poopdeck / stern of boat
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *舺* | 舺* | *舺
boat / Taiwan pr. [jia3]
people who live and make a living on boats
lit. to live on a boat / to drift from place to place (idiom)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *櫂* | 櫂* | *櫂
oar (archaic) / scull / paddle / to row / a boat
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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)
(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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