ショウセン
Meanings
Noun
1. merchant ship
Pitch accent
ショ
ウセン
Composed of
quotient; business; merchant; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (of China; approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty
ship; boat; vessel
Used in vocabulary (4 in total)
armed merchantman
merchant fleet
merchant-marine school
Examples (1 in total)
Larger pirates often preyed on unarmed merchant ships.