舴

zé
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 used in 舴艋, a small boat

Examples

HSK 7-9
只恐双溪舴艋舟,载不动许多愁。
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
舴 is not used independently in modern Chinese. It appears only in 舴艋 (a tiny boat), bound to 艋. 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 舟.
register
Classical and literary only. 舴 survives in poetry and the fixed compound, not in everyday Chinese.

Components

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

Stroke Order

舴 zé