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船ふね
Meanings
Noun
1. ship; boat; watercraft; vessel; seaplane
舟 is often small and hand-propelled
Hey, was the boat okay?
2. tank; tub; vat; trough
Counter
Suffix
3. counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)
Alt. forms
船ふね
90%
舟ふね
7%
フネ
1%
槽ふね
Kanji used
船
ship
Pitch accent
ふ
ね
Top 1900
Used in: 3108
Used in vocabulary (26 in total)
godsend; lifesaver; timely offer; windfall
black ships; Western ships that came to Japan between the 16th and 19th centuries, esp. those of the Perry Expedition in 1853; foreign disruptor (of the Japanese market); product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market
having gone too far to turn back
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Examples (170 in total)
Did they hijack the ship?
Hey, was the boat okay?
The ship is called "Lost Ship."
Why isn't the ship departing?
The ship is sailing to the west.
The ship was ready to sink any time.
He traveled by boat.
They'll send a boat over from their side.
The ship changed its course.
The goods were transported by ship.
Access to the venue is by boat.
The ship touched at Yokohama.
The ship was sailing at full speed.
The ship was at sea.
I name this ship the Queen Elizabeth.
The ship dropped anchor.
The boats collided head on.
She's missed the boat.
The ship sailed down the river.
The ship was wrecked on a sunken reef.
The ship went through the Suez Canal.
The ship was soon out of sight.
What a big ship that is!
When is the ship leaving?
I slept aboard the ship.
A white ship came into view.
He is on board the ship.
The ship was returned on the sea.
She enjoyed the life on board.
The length of this ship is 30 meters.
We caught sight of a ship in the distance.
It is clear that the ship sank.
Their ship struck a rock.
The ship gradually came in sight.
The ship rolled from side to side in the storm.
I hear that they are moving to another ship.
We crossed the lake in a boat.
I have never gotten seasick on a boat.
The ship was locked in ice.
What's the destination of this ship?
They warned the ship of the danger.
A ship sank near here yesterday.
I'm going to sink this ship.
The party went to China by sea.
The ship had three decks.
My father was a radio operator on a ship.
The ship arrived at the port on schedule.
He was picked up by a passing ship.
They pulled their boat up onto the beach.
There were quite a few passengers on board the ship.
Large ships come and go in the harbor.
They were rescued by a passing ship.
The boat was equipped with radar.
The ship will arrive by five o'clock.
He caught sight of a ship in the distance.
This ship is driven by steam.
The ship from New York will arrive before long.
The ship weathered the typhoon safely.
There was a ship sailing on the sea.
The crew abandoned the ship.
A big ship appeared on the horizon.
We'll transport the supplies to the ship.
The ship is at anchor in the harbor.
Because of the storm, the ship had a rough voyage.
They are loading oil into the ship.
The ship encountered rough seas.
He fell overboard and drowned.
The ship was bound for Cairo.
They sailed around the world.
A tanker is a ship carrying oil.
A pilot guides the ship toward the port.
The ship was unloaded at the port.
Our ship docked at Marseilles.
The ship discharged its cargo in Panama.
This ship is bound for Vancouver.
The ship set sail for Bombay.
The ship was flying the American flag.
The ship loaded in two days.
The ship is bound for the Gulf of Mexico.
This boat sails through the Strait of Gibraltar.
What shall we name this ship?
The ship swayed in the strong wind.
The ship was carrying a lot of passengers on board.
A small boat is drifting on the sea.
The child floated a paper boat on the river.
The ship sank to the bottom of the sea.
A boat suddenly appeared out of the mist.
I feel sick as soon as I get on a boat.
How many people were aboard that ship?
The return boat is also quite crowded.
The ship is now in the harbor.
Alas, that ship never came back.
Do you travel by sea or by air?
It seems that if you untie the rope, you can move the boat.
The ship is getting farther and farther away from the shore.
The two ships went down at once.
We must use these to the fullest to get a ship.
There are many rats on the ship.
There is a mechanism to launch a ship into space.
They built the ship in accordance with the plans.
The ship sailed along the coast of Shikoku.
The harbor is closed to navigation.
I plan to go to Hawaii by ship.
Our boat approached the small island.
We steered the boat by the light of the lighthouse.
I believe the ship will arrive on schedule.
They're loading coal into the ship now.
Ships and helicopters left for the spacemen's rescue.
The travelers took a ferry across the river.
The ship sounded its whistle and pulled away from the pier.
The ship was drifting at the mercy of the waves.
Did you ever travel abroad by ship?
The ship took on additional passengers.
That ship crossed the equator yesterday.
The ship set sail only to be wrecked two days after.
The ship is about to sail for Manila tomorrow.
The ship transports raw materials from Indonesia.
The boat drifted out to sea.
It was a ship with a crew of 25 sailors.
They sank ten enemy ships.
We named the boat the Half Moon.
He served as the pilot of the ship.
A woman fell from a ship into the sea.
Do you see that ship near the island?
The waves are so violent that I can't steer the ship the way I want.
This is the last food there is on this boat.
We saw another ship far ahead.
This ship is called the Sakura.
Our current objective is to acquire this ship.
The wreckage of the ship floating all around drove home the reality.
This is the first time this ship has shaken like this.
Currently, I am being rocked like this on the ship.
After the wind has stopped, let's sail the boat off to the open sea.
The ship made it through the stormy sea and reached port.
The brave captain saved his ship.
A ship that surveys undersea resources has arrived in port.
They disguised themselves as fishermen and escaped in a boat.
Boats run between the island and the mainland every day.
The ship was built at considerable expense.
He looked at the ship through his telescope.
This is a picture of the ship that Tom and I were on.
He named the ship the Swallow.
This ship is too big to pass through the canal.
The vessel was loaded with coal, lumber, and so on.
The mast broke and our ship went adrift.
These men had come to his country in three ships.
We sail for San Francisco on Monday.
The ship sank with all her crew on board.
The ship sails for Honolulu tomorrow.
He once sailed up the Thames.
They named the ship Queen Mary after the Queen.
I didn't even know about that ship until I got back.
The ship made slow progress against the strong wind.
He, too, sits there, letting the boat move along with the current.
At a distance, the ship looks like an island.
It was not by plane, but by ship, that I went to London.
It took me more than a week to put the model ship together.
People build houses, dams, bridges, ships and so on.
The ships left the port never to be seen again.
The ship Tom's grandfather was on was sunk by a torpedo.
I never get seasick because I am used to traveling by boat.
There is no way of reaching the island other than by boat.
I have a friend whose father is the captain of a big ship.
The ship seems to be progressing smoothly across the sea, gently rocked by the waves.
Furthermore, the entire ship began to emit magical light and initiate propulsion.
The ship carried hundreds of emigrants to the US.
The passengers were asleep in their cabins when the ship hit a huge iceberg.
A society without religion is like a ship without a compass.
I was told to go not by boat but by plane, which advice I followed.
They came to the conclusion that the ship must have sunk.