舺

xiá
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 a small boat (used mainly in the place name 艋舺)

Examples

HSK 5
Měngxiá shì Táiběi zuì gǔlǎo de chéngqū zhīyī.
Bangka is one of the oldest districts in Taipei.

Tips

history
舺 is not used independently in modern Chinese. It survives almost solely in the Taipei place name 艋舺 (Bangka / Monga), a transliteration of an Aboriginal word for the dugout canoes once moored there. It joins the boat radical 舟 with the phonetic 甲.
register
Bound and regional; seen only in the place name and old texts, not as a free word in everyday Chinese.

Components

radical
舟 zhōu
boat
The boat radical 舟 on the left marks the meaning: a small boat or canoe.
phonetic
甲 jiǎ
first; shell
Supplies the sound (reading drifted from jiǎ to xiá). It is purely phonetic, carrying none of its own meaning.

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Stroke Order

舺 xiá