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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

船头

chuántóu

the bow or prow of a ship

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

the bow or prow of a ship

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 船头 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 船头 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

他双手握著栏杆,站在船头吹风。tā shuāng shǒu wò zhù lán gān, zhàn zài chuán tóu chuī fēng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

利用前帆的反帆与舵,在后退的同时将船头转向了想要前进的方向。lì yòng qián fān de fǎn fān yǔ duò, zài hòu tuì de tóng shí jiāng chuán tóu zhuǎn xiàng le xiǎng yào qián jìn de fāng xiàng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 船头.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 船头.

Directly before

  • 将船头1
  • 在船头1

Directly after

  • 船头转向1
  • 船头吹风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 船头

What does 船头 mean in Chinese?

船头 (chuántóu) means the bow or prow of a ship.

How do you pronounce 船头?

船头 is pronounced chuántóu.

Is 船头 an HSK word?

船头 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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