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船老大

chuán lǎo dà

3-character word

What 船老大 means

1. coxswain
2. steersman
3. boatswain (bo'sun)

The characters in 船老大

• 船chuánboat; vessel; ship
• 老lǎoprefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of…
• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐

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