杨帆

楊帆
yángfān
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to hoist sail
  2. 2 to set sail
  3. 3 (as name) Yang Fan

Examples

Yúchuán zài límíng shífēn yángfān chū hǎi.
The fishing boats set sail at dawn.
Bìyè hòu tā yángfān yuǎnháng, qù le guówài.
After graduation he set sail for distant shores — he went abroad.
Gōngsī zhǔnbèi yángfān jìnjūn hǎiwài shìchǎng.
The company is preparing to set sail into overseas markets.

Tips

usage
Technically the first character should be (to raise, hoist) not (poplar); 杨帆 is the personal-name form (surname + 'sail'). Search engines and corpora often merge the two — context tells you which is meant.
memory
= to lift up, = sail. Picture hands pulling a canvas sail up the mast — 扬帆 is the moment a journey officially begins, and is a favorite metaphor in graduation speeches.

Stroke Order

yáng
fān