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

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.

他们升起了船帆。

Tāmen shēng qǐ 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