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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."
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