Radical 137

舟
136 ⾇ ◄	137	► ⾉ 138
Pinyin :	zhōu (= boat)
Zhuyin :	ㄓ ㄡ
Hiragana :	ふ ね fune
Kanji :	舟 偏 funehen (= radical boat)
Hangul :	배
Sinocorean :	주 (= boat)
Codepoint :	U + 821F
Stroke sequence :

Radical 137 , meaning “ boat ”, is one of 29 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese script that are written with six strokes.

With 37 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are relatively many characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

The radical "boot" takes only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals, the 137th position. It can be found in a completely different place in modern abbreviation dictionaries. In the New Chinese-German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, for example, it is in 182nd position.

The bronze lettering symbol represents the image of a ship, but this can no longer be recognized in the following seal lettering form. As a bearer of meaning in the compound symbol, 舟 (zhou) puts this in the meaning field "water transport" such as 舢 (in: 舢板 = sampan ), 航 (= boat), 舫 (= boat), 舱 (= cabin), 舰 ( = Warship), 艇 (ting = light boat). In all of these signs 舟 functions as a carrier of meaning, the other component as a sound carrier. As a sound carrier, 舟 only appears in some characters that are very unusual today. 盘 (= plate) is a shortened character that actually contains 般 as a sound carrier. In the shortened version, 舟 is only the remainder of the former carrier.

Character combinations ruled by radical 137

Japanese boat, color woodcut by Kuniyoshi , around 1847/50

Strokes	character
+ 00	舟
+ 02	舠
+ 03	舡 舢 舣 舤
+ 04	舥 舦 舧 舨 舩 航 舫 般 舭 舮 舯 舰 舱
+ 05	舲 舳 舴 舵 舶 舷 舸 船 舺 舻
+ 06	舼 舽 舾 舿
+ 07	艀 艁 艂 艃 艄 艅 艆 艇 艈 艉
+ 08	艊 艋 艌 艍
+ 09	艎 艏 艐 艑 艒 艓 艔
+10	艕 艖 艗 艘 艙
+11	艚 艛 艜 艝
+12	艞 艟 艠
+13	艡 艢 艣 艤 艥
+14	艦 艧 艨 艩
+15	艪
+16	艫
+17	艬
+18	艭

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 137 is coded under the code point number 12.168 (U + 2F88).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 146 .
• Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 150 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 137  - Graphic representations of Radikal 137

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 137 on page 122