HSK 6 · Transport

舟 zhōu “boat” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 舟 means

  1. boat

How to say 舟

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale舟zhōu1st tone, high and level

舟 in a sentence

  1. 端午节要赛龙舟。

    Duānwǔjié yào sài lóngzhōu.

    There are dragon boat races at the Dragon Boat Festival.

    Sentence #5687429 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 骆驼是沙漠之舟。

    Luòtuo shì shāmò zhī zhōu.

    The camel is the ship of the desert.

    Sentence #418557 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 舟 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 舟 (zhōu) drawn as one shape
舟zhōuboat

舟 is a single shape of 6 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 舟

舟 6 strokes

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

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

Words related to 舟

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FAQs

舟 (zhōu) means “boat”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhōu: zhōu with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 舟 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhou with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 舟 from the suggestions. Typing zhou into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
舟 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.