Kanji N3

船: ship, boat

船 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning ship, boat, written with 11 strokes. It is read セン (on) and ふね (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 2. You will see it in 漁船 (ぎょせん, fishing boat) and 造船 (ぞうせん, shipbuilding).

船

Meanings

  • ship
  • boat
Strokes11
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 2
Frequency#713 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • セン

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • ふね
  • ふな-

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 船

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 漁船ぎょせん

    fishing boat

    JLPT N1
  • 造船ぞうせん

    shipbuilding

    JLPT N2
  • 風船ふうせん

    balloon (toy or decoration)

    JLPT N2
  • 船舶せんぱく

    vessel; ship; shipping; seacraft

    JLPT N1
  • 船便ふなびん

    surface mail (by ship); sea mail

    JLPT N2
  • 汽船きせん

    steamship; steamboat; steamer

    JLPT N1
  • 船長せんちょう

    ship's captain; skipper

  • 船橋ふなばし

    pontoon bridge; floating bridge

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.