船帆

chuánfān

noun #30,526

Measure Word

一面船帆 miàn

Meanings

1 sail (of a boat)
2 ship's sail

Characters

Examples

HSK 5

白色的船帆在海风中鼓起。

Báisè de chuánfān zài hǎifēng zhōng gǔqǐ.

The white sail billows in the sea breeze.

HSK 5

他们升起了船帆。

Tāmen shēngqǐ le chuánfān.

They hoisted the sail.

Tips

memory

Literally 'boat-cloth': 船 (boat) + 帆 (cloth/sail). The radical of 帆 is 巾 (cloth) and 凡 gives the sound - a perfectly clean phono-semantic compound.

Stroke Order

船 chuán

帆 fān