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Kanji Detail for 艦 - "warship, battleship"
艦
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Meaning
艦 means "warship, battleship."
Warship - A military naval vessel.
Battleship - A large armed ship.
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Words using 艦
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艦隊
かんたい
(naval) fleet; armada
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潜水艦
せんすいかん
submarine
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艦船
かんせん
warships and other vessels; naval vessels
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艦艇
かんてい
naval vessels; warships
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軍艦
ぐんかん
warship; battleship
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戦艦
せんかん
battleship
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駆逐艦
くちくかん
destroyer (ship)
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艦隊
かんたい
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Tattoo check: 艦
- Verified meaning: warship, battleship
- Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
- Used in real Japanese given names (read いくお, いくろう, かん, かんじ)
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 艦
Given names 艦(かん)
Surnames 艦(いくお)
艦(いくろう)
艦(かんじ)
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Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
warship
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
warship
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
warship
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
warship
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A ship for resisting enemies. Now the navy is called 艦隊 (fleet). Warships are called 軍艦 (warship).
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Onyomi
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Kunyomi
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Strokes
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Radical
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Related Keywords
Sentences including 艦
We've destroyed the enemy flagship!
ロシアの軍艦よ、くたばれ！
Russian warship, go fuck yourself.
The submarine sank, never to rise again.
Our combined fleet broke through the enemy's defense zone.
The submarine's periscope was sticking right out of the water.
It was a big black American warship.
I've never seen a yellow submarine in my life.
その大砲8門を備えた軍艦の船級は「クイーンエリザベス」です。
That warship armed with eight cannons is a "Queen Elizabeth" class.
戦艦ビスマルク号を海のもくずとするには、何発もの魚雷を命中させなければならなかった。
It took many torpedo hits to send the battleship Bismarck to Davy Jones's locker.