渔船

yūchuán · HSK 7

fishing boat

🎣⛵ 渔 = fishing + 船 = boat → a boat for fishing

渔 means to fish (note the water radical 氵on the left), and 船 is boat. Stack them and you get the working vessel a fisherman takes out to sea.

船 — boat radical 舟 + 㕣 (phonetic)
船 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The left side 舟 depicts a boat and gives the meaning, while the right side 㕣 originally suggested the sound. Together they refer to a ship or vessel, a meaning that has stayed stable since early seal script.

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