驳船

駁船
bóchuán
noun #30,753

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 barge
  2. 2 lighter (flat-bottomed cargo boat)

Examples

HSK 5
Chángjiāng shàng yǒu xǔduō yùn méi de bóchuán.
There are many coal-carrying barges on the Yangtze.
HSK 7-9
Bóchuán bǎ huòwù cóng dà chuán yùn dào ànshàng.
The barge ferries cargo from the big ship to the shore.

Tips

memory
here keeps its older sense of 'transfer / shuttle' (as in 驳运 'transfer-shipping'). A 驳船 is a shuttle-boat: the small flat-bottomed vessel that moves cargo between ocean ships and the shore.

Stroke Order

chuán