HSK 6 · Transport

舱 cāng “cabin (of a ship or plane)” in Chinese

Traditional 艙

What 舱 means

  1. cabin (of a ship or plane)
  2. hold
  3. cabin
  4. the hold of a ship or aeroplane

How to say 舱

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale舱cāng1st tone, high and level

舱 in a sentence

  1. 未来飞行员会在虚拟驾驶舱里训练。

    Wèilái fēixíngyuán huì zài xūnǐ jiàshǐcāng lǐ xùnliàn.

    Future pilots will train in a simulated cockpit.

    Sentence #2027998 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 舱 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 舱 (cāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
舱cāngcabin
  • 舟boat · zhōu
  • 仓granary · cāng

How to write 舱

舱 10 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

舱 (cāng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 舱 (cāng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 舱

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FAQs

舱 (cāng) means “cabin (of a ship or plane)” or “hold”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it cāng: cāng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 舱 is written 艙. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type cang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 舱 from the suggestions. Typing cang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
舱 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.