フネ
Meanings
Noun
1. ship; boat; watercraft; vessel; seaplane
舟 is often small and hand-propelled
2. tank; tub; vat; trough
Counter
Suffix
3. counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (26 in total)
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
night boat
godsend; lifesaver; timely offer; windfall
Examples (131 in total)
The ship is called "Lost Ship."
I know a lot about ships.
The ship is sailing to the west.