船

Phono-semantic compound:

舟 (boat, ship) - semantic element, indicating “vessel.”

㕣 (phonetic element, 연) - provides the sound.

Thus the character represents “a vessel, a boat.”

船舶 (선박) — ship, vessel

漁船 (어선) — fishing boat

客船 (객선) — passenger ship

戰船 (전선) — warship

造船 (조선) — shipbuilding

This is the most common and general character for “boat/ship.”

For specialized types of ships, other characters are used (e.g., 艦 “large battleship”).

Variant/abbreviated form: 舩.

Sometimes mentioned in folk interpretations (e.g., “舟(boat) + 八(eight) + 口(mouths)” = Noah’s Ark with 8 people), but this is a folk etymology and not historically correct.

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