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船 — boat; vessel; ship

Pinyin
chuán
Strokes
11
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 船: 11 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

船 — 11 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 船 in the HSK syllabus: 9

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 船chuánboat; vessel; shipHSK 3
  2. 船只chuánzhīship; boat; vesselHSK 6
  3. 轮船lúnchuánsteamship; steamer; steamboatHSK 6
  4. 船舶chuánbóshipping; boatsHSK 7–9
  5. 帆船fānchuánsailboatHSK 7–9
  6. 飞船fēichuánspaceship; spacecraft; dirigible; airshipHSK 7–9
  7. 水涨船高shuǐzhǎng-chuángāothe tide rises, the boat floats; fig. to change with the overall trendHSK 7–9
  8. 游船yóuchuánpleasure boat; cruise shipHSK 7–9
  9. 渔船yúchuánfishing boatHSK 7–9

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