I crossed the river by boat.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
乘船
to embark
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to embark
02
to travel by ship
03
to ferry
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 乘船 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 乘船 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
It is very pleasant to cross the ocean by ship.
The voyage from England to India used to take 6 months.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 乘船.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 乘船.
Directly before
- 想乘船1
- 除了乘船1
- 英国乘船1
- 我乘船1
- 南安普顿乘船1
Directly after
- 乘船周游世界1
- 乘船到1
- 乘船过海1
- 乘船过1
- 乘船去1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 乘船
What does 乘船 mean in Chinese?
乘船 (chéngchuán) means to embark.
How do you pronounce 乘船?
乘船 is pronounced chéngchuán.
Is 乘船 an HSK word?
乘船 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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