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艘

sōu

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 6 Character

艘 (sōu) means "classifier for ships". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 艘 means

1. classifier for ships
2. Taiwan pr. sāo

Example sentences

• 我有一艘小船。
  Wǒ yǒu yī sōu xiǎochuán.
  I've got a boat.
• 我想要一艘船。
  I want a boat.
• 这艘船有六个桨。
  Zhè sōu chuán yǒu liù gè jiǎng.
  This boat has six oars.
• 湖面上有几艘船。
  Some boats are on the lake.
• 那艘飞船真大啊。
  How huge that airship is!
• 我们租了一艘划艇。
  We rented a canoe.

Characters built on 叟

These share the phonetic component 叟 (sǒu), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 搜sōuto search; variant of 搜
• 瘦shòuthin; to lose weight; (of clothing) tight
• 馊sōurancid; soured (as food)
• 嗖sōu(onomatopoeia) whooshing; swishing; rustle of skirts
• 飕sōuto blow (as of wind); sound of wind; sough
• 锼sōuto engrave (metal of wood)
• 螋sōuused in 蠼螋
• 溲sōuto urinate

Characters that look like 艘

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 精jīngessence; extract; vitality
• 糖tángsugar; sweets; candy
• 膀bǎngupper arm; wing
• 膛táng(bound form) hollow space
• 踱duóto pace; to stroll; Taiwan pr. duò
• 羰tāngcarbonyl (radical)

Sounds the same

Read sōu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 搜to search; variant of 搜
• 嗖(onomatopoeia) whooshing; swishing; rustle of skirts
• 飕to blow (as of wind); sound of wind; sough
• 馊rancid; soured (as food)
• 蒐(literary) madder (Rubia cordifolia); (literary) to hunt during spring
• 獀dog (dial.); to hunt
• 锼to engrave (metal of wood)
• 螋used in 蠼螋
• 溲to urinate
• 廋to search; be concealed
• 鄋see 鄋瞒
• 廀old variant of 廋

Where 艘 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · sǐ–sù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read sōu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.