I'm the captain of this ship.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
船长
captain (of a boat)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
captain (of a boat)
02
skipper
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 船长 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 船长 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The captain is responsible for the safety of passengers.
Captains have responsibility for ship and crew.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 船长.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 船长.
Directly before
- 多克船长1
- 的船长1
- 瓦船长1
- 基德船长1
Directly after
- 船长叫嚷1
- 船长要1
- 船长们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 船长
What does 船长 mean in Chinese?
船长 (chuánzhǎng) means captain (of a boat).
How do you pronounce 船长?
船长 is pronounced chuánzhǎng.
Is 船长 an HSK word?
船长 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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