Kanji Detail for 艘 - "boat, counter"

艘

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning

艘 means "boat, counter."
1. Boat - A vessel.
2. Counter - A counter for ships.
Dictionary Citations

The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

counter for small boats

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

counter for ships, vessels

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

classifier for ships; Taiwan pr. [sao1]

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

measure word for ships or vessels

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

A general name for boats. Hence counting boats uses the counter 艘.
Onyomi

shoh(ショウ)

shuu(シュウ)

soh(ソウ)
Kunyomi

fune(ふね)
Strokes

16 strokes
Radical

舟 (fune・funehen)
Related Keywords

boat counter ship

湖の上に幾艘かのボートがあった。
There were some boats on the lake.
数艘のヨットが、はるか沖合を並んで航行していた。
Several yachts were sailing side by side far out at sea.
これらの人々が３艘の船で彼の国へやってきました。
These men had come to his country in three ships.
むろん、舟は何百艘も水面を動きまわっているが、どれでもいいというわけにはいかない。
Of course there were several hundred boats moving around on the water but not just any old one would do.