乘船

Chinese

		ride; mount; make use of ride; mount; make use of; take advantage of; multiply; to avail of; to ride	a boat; vessel; ship
trad. (乘船)		乘	船
simp. #(乘船)		乘	船

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chéngchuán

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄥˊ ㄔㄨㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sing⁴ syun⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chéngchuán
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄥˊ ㄔㄨㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chéngchuán
    • Wade–Giles: chʻêng²-chʻuan²
    • Yale: chéng-chwán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: cherngchwan
    • Palladius: чэнчуань (čɛnčuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sing⁴ syun⁴
    • Yale: sìhng syùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sing⁴ syn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xing⁴ xun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ²¹ syːn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: zying zywen

Rime
Character	乘	船
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	船 (27)	船 (27)
Final (韻)	蒸 (133)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	食陵切	食川切
Baxter	zying	zywen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʑɨŋ/	/ʑiuᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/ʑɨŋ/	/ʑʷiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/ʑieŋ/	/ʑjuæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʑiŋ/	/ʑwian/
Li Rong	/d͡ʑiəŋ/	/d͡ʑiuɛn/
Wang Li	/d͡ʑĭəŋ/	/d͡ʑĭwɛn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/d͡ʑʰi̯əŋ/	/d͡ʑʰi̯wɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shéng	shuán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sing4	syun4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.ləŋ  Cə.lo[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɦljɯŋ  ɦljon/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	乘	船
Reading #	1/3	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chéng	chuán
Middle Chinese	‹ zying ›	‹ zywen ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.ləŋ/	/*Cə.lo[n]/
English	ride (v.)	boat
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	乘	船
Reading #	1/2	1/1
No.	1452	14278
Phonetic component	乘	沿
Rime group	蒸	元
Rime subdivision	0	3
Corresponding MC rime	繩	船
Old Chinese	/*ɦljɯŋ/	/*ɦljon/

Verb

乘船

1. to take a boat

Synonyms

• (literary) 乘舟 (chéngzhōu)