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舟
Radical 137 (U+2F88)
舟 (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

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

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

舟 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

• 
  Shang dynasty Oracle bone script
• 
  Shang dynasty Bronze script
• 
  Western Zhou Bronze script
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

月 in 前 came from this character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	舟
+2	舠 䑠
+3	舡 舢 舣SC (=艤) 舤 䑡 䑢 䑣
+4	舥 舦 舧 舨 舩 (=船) 航 舫 般 舭 舮 (=艫) 舯 舰SC (=艦) 舱SC (=艙) 䑤 䑥
+5	舲 舳 舴 舵 舶 舷 舸 船 舺 舻SC (=艫) 䑦 䑧 䑨 䑩
+6	舼 舽 舾 舿 䑪 䑫 䑬 䑭 䑮
+7	艀 艁 (=造 -> 辵) 艂 艃 艄 艅 艆 艇 艈 (=毓 -> 毋) 艉 䑯 䑰
+8	艊 艋 艌 艍 䑱 䑲 (=櫂 -> 木) 䑳 䑴 䑵 䑶 䑷 䑸
+9	艎 艏 艐 艑 艒 艓 艔 䑹 䑺 䑻
+10	艕 艖 艗 艘 艙 䑼 䑽 䑾
+11	艚 艛 艜 艝 䑿 䒀 䒁 䒂 䒃 䒄 䒅
+12	艞 艟 艠 䒆 䒇 䒈
+13	艡 艢 (=檣 -> 木) 艣 (=櫓 -> 木) 艤 艥
+14	艦 艧 艨 艩 䒉
+15	艪 (=櫓)
+16	艫
+17	艬
+18	艭

Literature

• 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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+821F