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艏

shǒu

Character

What 艏 means

1. bow of a ship

Words containing 艏

• 破冰型艏pò bīng xíng shǒuicebreaker bow

Sounds the same

Read shǒu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 手hand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work
• 首head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc)
• 守to guard; to defend; to keep watch
• 扌"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc
• 掱variant of 手

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