noun

Meanings

  1. 1 used in 舴艋, a small boat

Examples

双溪舴艋载不动许多
Zhǐ kǒng shuāngxī zéměng zhōu, zài bú dòng xǔduō chóu.
I only fear that the little boat on the twin streams could not carry so much sorrow.

Tips

history
is not used independently in modern Chinese. It appears only in 舴艋 (a tiny boat), bound to . The pair is famous from Li Qingzhao's line about a small boat too frail to carry one's sorrows. Built on the boat radical .
register
Classical and literary only. survives in poetry and the fixed compound, not in everyday Chinese.

Components

radical
zhōu
boat
The 'boat' radical marks as a kind of vessel and is its indexing radical.
phonetic
zhà
suddenly; (here) phonetic
The element supplies the sound; the boat radical narrows it to this small craft, .

Stroke Order