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  *船* | 船* | *船
boat / vessel / ship / CL: 條|条, , 隻|只
HSK 2
warship / military naval vessel / CL:
HSK 6
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  *只* | 只* | *只
classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
HSK 3
ship / boat / vessel
HSK 6
glassware / colored glass household vessel
main artery (blood vessel) / fig. main highway / arterial road
anti-submarine vessel
escort vessel
containment vessel
livermorium (chemistry) / (old) (Italian) lira (loanword) / (archaic) type of food vessel used in Funan 扶南
receptacle / vessel / (computing) container
ritual object; sacrificial vessel
pressure vessel / autoclave
(of a naval vessel) to cruise / to patrol / (of ducks, boats etc) to move about on a lake or river etc
escort vessel / corvette
patrol vessel / cutter
ritual dishes / sacrificial vessels
the fish hold (of a fishing vessel)
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  *尊* | 尊* | *尊
senior / of a senior generation / to honor / to respect / honorific / classifier for cannons and statues / ancient wine vessel
escort vessel; frigate; corvette
man-of-war / naval vessel / warship
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  *焖* | 焖* | *焖
to cook in a covered vessel / to casserole / to stew
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  *角* | 角* | *角
role (theater) / to compete / ancient three legged wine vessel / third note of pentatonic scale
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  *鬲* | 鬲* | *鬲
ancient ceramic three-legged vessel used for cooking with cord markings on the outside and hollow legs
non-vessel-owning common carrier (NVOCC) (transportation)
arteries and veins / network of blood vessels / vascular system (of a plant or animal) / (fig.) fabric (i.e. underlying structure, as in "social fabric") / overall context
HSK 7-9
measuring vessel / measuring apparatus
fishing vessel
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  *瓯* | 瓯* | *瓯
(pottery) bowl or drinking vessel
blood tumor / angioma (tumor consisting of a mass of blood vessels)
HMCS (Her Majesty's Canadian Ship) / prefix for Canadian Navy Vessels
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  *斠* | 斠* | *斠
(old) instrument to even out the grain in a measuring vessel / to proofread / to collate
communicating vessels (in scientific experiment)
armed vessel (of ancient times)
warship / naval vessel
sacrificial vessel
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  *彝* | 彝* | *彝
(archaic) wine vessel / (archaic) sacrificial vessel / (literary) rule; convention
lit. if you tap a half-empty bottle it makes a sound (idiom) / fig. empty vessels make the most noise / one who has a little knowledge likes to show off, but one who is truly knowledgeable is modest
lit. to form an army / to set up (team, group, band, organization etc) / to found / opening (ceremony) / to commission (arms system, naval vessel) / to graduate from an apprenticeship
ox head / ox-head shaped wine vessel
survey vessel
bamboo box / vessels for holding food
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  *觳* | 觳* | *觳
ancient measuring vessel (same as ) / frightened
whaler; whaling vessel
drinking vessel / wine cup
duct; pipe; conduit / (botany) vessel / (medicine) catheter
capillary blood vessels
lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom) / fig. empty vessels make the most noise
(chemical engineering) reaction vessel; reaction tank
roll-on, roll-off ship (RORO ship); vessel designed to load and unload vehicles by driving them on and off
wine vessel / wine cup
ancient type of drinking vessel
to steer (a vessel) / to hold the rudder / at the helm
lit. fragrant herbs and foul herbs do not go into the same vessel (idiom) / bad people and good people do not mix
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  *艇* | 艇* | *艇
vessel / small ship
drawer / stackable cooking vessel / woven mat on a bed frame or chair / woven window screen
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  *琏* | 琏* | *琏
sacrificial vessel used for grain offerings / also pr. [lian2]
vascular (made up of vessels)
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  *豋* | 豋* | *豋
ceremonial vessel
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  *甗* | 甗* | *甗
earthenware vessel
blood vessels
HSK 7-9
capillary blood vessels
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  *皿* | 皿* | *皿
(bound form) dish; vessel; shallow container / radical no. 108
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  *斛* | 斛* | *斛
ancient measuring vessel / fifty liters / dry measure for grain equal to five dou 五斗 (before Tang, ten pecks)
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  *盉* | 盉* | *盉
vessel similar to a kettle, but with three or four legs, used in ancient times for warming wine
to charter a ship / to take a vessel on rent
lit. blood vessels swell wide (idiom) / fig. one's blood runs quicker; to be excited
shut-out, container or consigment not carried on the intended vessel or aircraft
(medicine) vascular stent; stent (used to keep a blood vessel open)
lymphatic vessel
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  *簋* | 簋* | *簋
ancient bronze food vessel with a round mouth and two or four handles / round basket of bamboo
cooking vessels (archaeology)
vessel / receptacle
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  *嶡* | 嶡* | *嶡
sacrificial vessel
navy vessel / (coast guard) patrol boat
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  *卢* | 卢* | *卢
(old) rice vessel / black / old variant of 廬|庐 / (slang) (Tw) troublesome / fussy
naval surveillance vessel; maritime patrol boat
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  *衈* | 衈* | *衈
the blood of a sacrificial fowl which was sprinkled on doors and vessels
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  *鋬* | 鋬* | *鋬
(dialect) handle of a cup, kettle or other vessel
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  *艜* | 艜* | *艜
a long narrow vessel with two masts
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  *豊* | 豊* | *豊
ceremonial vessel / variant of 禮|礼


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