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(small) boat, ship, vessel
a small whole in a piece of wood
Imagine 舟 as a simplified side-view of a canoe:
the outer lines are the hull (trup broda), the central space is where passengers sit |
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(large) ship, boat, vessel
boat (zhou) + flowing lines (ba) + river mouth (kou)
几 (jī), though this is a modern misinterpretation—the original phonetic was 㕣, not 几
Picture a boat (舟) with a sail (几) on top, gliding through a mouth of a river |
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sort, kind, class
boat (zhou) + strike/stick (shu)
a boat for weapons and a boat for tools - different class of boats for different sort of things |
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to move/transport
hand (shou) + sort (ban)
a hand takes the sorted items and moves them to a boat to be transported |
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dish, bowl, vessel, shallow container
Picture of a dish-like shallow container |
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plate; tray, dish
to coil, to check
boat (zhou) + container [min]
a boat-sized shallow container is a gigantic plate of food for the whole stadium of people |
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