艘 (sāo) means (mw for ships). Below are 6 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
港口停着三 艘 大船。
Gǎngkǒu tíngzhe sān sōu dà chuán.
Three large ships are moored in the harbour.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 艘
这 艘 船已经用了二十年。
Zhè sōu chuán yǐjīng yòng le èrshí nián.
This ship has been in service for twenty years.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 艘
港口停着几 艘 舰艇。
Gǎngkǒu tíngzhe jǐ sōu jiàntǐng.
Several naval vessels are moored in the harbour.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 舰艇
几 艘 渔船停泊在岸边。
Jǐ sōu yúchuán tíngbó zài àn biān.
Several fishing boats are moored by the shore.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 停泊
这 艘 船已经航行了三个月。
Zhè sōu chuán yǐjīng hángxíng le sān ge yuè.
This ship has been sailing for three months.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 航行
这个港口每天有几十 艘 船进出。
Zhège gǎngkǒu měi tiān yǒu jǐshí sōu chuán jìnchū.
Dozens of ships come and go from this port every day.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 港口
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Questions about 艘
How is 艘 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 艘 (sāo, "(mw for ships)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 艘 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 艘 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 艘 an HSK word?
Yes — 艘 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 艘?
The dictionary page for 艘 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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