The Chinese word for canoe is
独木舟
dú mù zhōu
Chinese Definition
| canoe | |
| 1. 独木舟 | |
| 2. 圆木舟 | |
| 3. 皮舟 | |
| 4. 划独木舟 | |
| 5. 独乘木舟 | |
| Components | |
| 独 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 獨 | |
| 木 | |
| 1. tree; woody plant | |
| Synonyms: 樹 | |
| 樹木 - tree | |
| 灌木 - shrub | |
| 木芍藥 - tree peony | |
| 2. wood; timber | |
| 木頭tou - log | |
| 3. wooden | |
| 這 張 桌子 是 木 的。 - This table is made of wood | |
| 4. simple; plain; slow; emotionless; wooden | |
| 木訥 - plain spoken, slow and inarticulate | |
| 棺木 - coffin | |
| 就木 - to die (to enter one's coffin) | |
| 5. (Mandarin, neologism, slang) (eye dialect of zh, 沒) | |
| 有木有 - innit, damn right | |
| 6. numb | |
| 麻木 - numb, insensitive | |
| 她 手指 凍 木 了。 - Her fingers were numb with cold. | |
| 舟 | |
| 1. (literary) boat | |
| 同舟共濟 - to pull together in times of trouble, lit=to cross a river in the same boat | |
| 2. (obsolete) to ride in a boat; to sail a boat |
Translations for 舟 and their definitions
| 獨木舟 | |
| 1. n. dugout canoe | |
| 2. n. kayak |
| 独木舟 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 獨木舟 |
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Pronunciation
dú mù zhōu
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