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Radical 137a boat; a vessel, a ship

zhōu (first tone, high and level)

a boat; a vessel, a ship

Radical 1376 strokes0 characters

Where the shape comes from

A dugout hull seen from above, the crosswise planks or ribs marked inside its outline. It names the vessel itself, generically, in 船, a boat, a ship, and sits beneath 航, to sail, to navigate, journeys once made almost entirely by water.

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