Some of the crew were drowned.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
船员
sailor
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
sailor
02
crew member
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 船员 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 船员 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Modern ships only need a small crew.
Captains have responsibility for ship and crew.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 船员.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 船员.
Directly before
- 的船员1
- 几个船员1
- 和船员1
Directly after
- 船员溺水1
- 船员负有责任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 船员
What does 船员 mean in Chinese?
船员 (chuányuán) means sailor.
How do you pronounce 船员?
船员 is pronounced chuányuán.
Is 船员 an HSK word?
船员 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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