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船ふね
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)
Alt. forms
船ふね
90%
舟ふね
8%
フネ
1%
槽ふね
Kanji used
船
ship
Pitch accent
ふ
ね
Top 1900
Used in: 2986
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 (132 in total)
The ship is called "Lost Ship."
The ship is sailing to the west.
He traveled by boat.
The ship changed its course.
The goods were transported by ship.
The ship was sailing at full speed.
I name this ship the Queen Elizabeth.
The ship dropped anchor.
She's missed the boat.
The boats collided head on.
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.
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.
What a big ship that is!
She enjoyed the life on board.
We caught sight of a ship in the distance.
It is clear that the ship sank.
Their ship struck a rock.
The boat passed under the bridge.
The ship rolled from side to side in the storm.
We crossed the lake in 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.
The party went to China by sea.
The ship had three decks.
The ship arrived at the port on schedule.
They pulled their boat up onto the beach.
He was picked up by a passing ship.
There were quite a few passengers on board the ship.
The boat was equipped with radar.
They were rescued by a passing ship.
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 sailed along the coast.
The ship was bound for Kobe.
The crew abandoned the ship.
There was a ship sailing on the sea.
A big ship appeared on the horizon.
They are loading oil into the ship.
The ship is at anchor in the harbor.
The ship capsized in the middle of the ocean.
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.
The ship is bound for Finland.
A pilot guides the ship toward 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.
This boat sails through the Strait of Gibraltar.
The ship is bound for the Gulf of Mexico.
The ship was carrying a lot of passengers on board.
The ship sank to the bottom of the sea.
A boat suddenly appeared out of the mist.
The island is easy to reach by boat.
How many people were aboard that ship?
The ship is now in the harbor.
Do you travel by sea or by air?
The two ships went down at once.
There are many rats on the ship.
The length of this ship is 30 meters.
They built the ship in accordance with the plans.
I plan to go to Hawaii by ship.
Our boat approached the small island.
I believe the ship will arrive on schedule.
Ships and helicopters left for the spacemen's rescue.
They're loading coal into the ship now.
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.
He taught them how to sail 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?
This is the last food there is on this boat.
We saw another ship far ahead.
After the wind has stopped, let's sail the boat off to the open sea.
The brave captain saved his ship.
They disguised themselves as fishermen and escaped in a boat.
The sailors abandoned the burning ship.
The ship is at sea for India.
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.
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.
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 ship Tom's grandfather was on was sunk by a torpedo.
The ships left the port never to be seen again.
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 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.