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Kanji Detail for 航 - "to navigate, to cruise, ship"
航
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Meaning
航 means "to navigate, to cruise, ship."
Navigate - To sail; to voyage.
Cruise - To travel by water or air.
Ship - A vessel for water travel.
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Words using 航
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航空
こうくう
aviation; flying
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航空機
こうくうき
aircraft
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航海
こうかい
(sea) voyage; navigation; sailing
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運航
うんこう
operation (of a ship or aircraft route); service; navigation
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渡航
とこう
voyage; passage; travelling
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難航
なんこう
difficult voyage; stormy passage; hard flight
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航行
こうこう
cruise; navigation; sailing
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航路
こうろ
(air or sea) route; course; line
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航空
こうくう
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Tattoo check: 航
- Verified meaning: to navigate, to cruise, ship
- Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
- Used in real Japanese given names (read こう, わたる)
A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.
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Name readings of 航
Given names 航(こう)
航(わたる)
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Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
navigate; sail; cruise; fly
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
sail; navigate; ship, boat
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
boat; ship; craft; to navigate; to sail; to fly
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
vessel, craft; to sail, to navigate
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Two boats joined together to cross. | Now traveling by boat is generally called 航. Such as 航海 (navigate the sea), 航路 (sea route).
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Onyomi
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Kunyomi
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Strokes
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Radical
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Sentences including 航
They began to sail to their home.
The ship is sailing at three.
They went on a voyage.
He went on a voyage to america.
The ship is sailing at three.
The ship is at sea.
The storm will make it impossible for the ship to leave port.
The ship is about to set sail.
The ship was at sea.
Send this letter by air.