Radical 137 or radical boat (舟部) meaning "boat" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

← 136 Radical 137 (U+2F88) 138 →
(U+821F) "boat"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:zhōu
Bopomofo:ㄓㄡ
Wade–Giles:chou1
Cantonese Yale:jau1
Jyutping:zau1
Japanese Kana:シュウ shū / シュ shu (on'yomi)
ふね fune (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:주 ju
Names
Chinese name(s):舟字旁 zhōuzìpáng
Japanese name(s):舟/ふね fune
舟偏/ふねへん funehen
Hangul:배 bae
Stroke order animation

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 197 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

is also the 139th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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Derived characters

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Strokes Characters
+0
+2
+3 SC (=艤)
+4 (=船) (=) SC (=艦) SC

(=艙)

+5 SC (=艫)
+6
+7 (= -> ) (= -> )
+8 (= -> )
+9
+10
+11
+12
+13 (= -> ) (= -> )
+14
+15 (=)
+16
+17
+18

Literature

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  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
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