船 (chuán) means Ship (boat). Below are 24 of the 28 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
船 上有很多人。
Chuán shàng yǒu hěn duō rén.
There are many people on the boat.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 船
我们坐 船 去那个城市。
Wǒmen zuò chuán qù nàge chéngshì.
We are taking a boat to that city.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 船
小 船 慢慢靠近了岸。
Xiǎo chuán mànmàn kàojìn le àn.
The little boat slowly drew near the shore.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 岸
船 终于靠上了陆地。
Chuán zhōngyú kào shàng le lùdì.
The boat finally reached land.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 陆地
船 慢慢消失在雾里。
Chuán mànmàn xiāoshī zài wù lǐ.
The boat slowly disappeared into the fog.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 消失
船 在水上轻轻地晃。
Chuán zài shuǐ shang qīngqīng de huàng.
The boat rocked gently on the water.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 晃
小 船 的桨断了一支。
Xiǎochuán de jiǎng duàn le yì zhī.
One of the little boat's oars has broken.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 桨
船 已经靠上了码头。
Chuán yǐjīng kào shàng le mǎtou.
The ship has already come alongside the wharf.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 码头
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
我们坐 船 游览了长江。
Wǒmen zuò chuán yóulǎn le Chángjiāng.
We toured the Yangtze River by boat.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 长江
船 慢慢驶向那些岛屿。
Chuán mànmàn shǐ xiàng nàxiē dǎoyǔ.
The boat sailed slowly toward those islands.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 岛屿
坐 船 的时候他有点晕。
Zuò chuán de shíhou tā yǒudiǎn yūn.
He feels a bit dizzy on a boat.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 晕
两 船 慢慢靠拢在一起。
Liǎng chuán mànmàn kàolǒng zài yìqǐ.
The two boats slowly drew together.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 靠拢
他们坐轮 船 去了对岸。
Tāmen zuò lúnchuán qù le duì'àn.
They took a steamer to the opposite shore.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 轮船
轮 船 在雾中缓缓前行。
Lúnchuán zài wù zhōng huǎnhuǎn qiánxíng.
The steamship moved slowly forward through the fog.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 轮船
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
船 在波涛中艰难地前行。
Chuán zài bōtāo zhōng jiānnán de qiánxíng.
The ship pushed forward with difficulty through the billows.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 波涛
小 船 安静地停在港湾里。
Xiǎochuán ānjìng de tíng zài gǎngwān lǐ.
The little boat lay quietly in the harbour.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 港湾
他晕 船 ，一路都在呕吐。
Tā yūnchuán, yílù dōu zài ǒutù.
He was seasick and threw up the whole way.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 呕吐
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
轮 船 在港口停泊了两天。
Lúnchuán zài gǎngkǒu tíngbó le liǎng tiān.
The steamer lay at anchor in the harbour for two days.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 停泊
他把纸折成了一只小 船 。
Tā bǎ zhǐ zhé chéng le yì zhī xiǎo chuán.
He folded the paper into a little boat.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 折
轮 船 靠卫星导航确定位置。
Lúnchuán kào wèixīng dǎoháng quèdìng wèizhì.
Ships determine their position by satellite navigation.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 导航
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
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船 appears in 28 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 船
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Questions about 船
How is 船 used in a sentence?
This page shows 28 sentences using 船 (chuán, "Ship (boat)"), 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 船 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 船 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 船 an HSK word?
Yes — 船 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.
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The dictionary page for 船 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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