火船

Chinese

		fire; angry; fierce fire; angry; fierce; fiery; thriving	a boat; vessel; ship
trad. (火船)		火	船
simp. #(火船)		火	船

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fo² syun⁴
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): fo³ son²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hér-chûn / hé-chûn / hóe-chûn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): huê² zung⁵

  (Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): hue² zung⁵

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fo² syun⁴
    • Yale: fó syùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fo² syn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: fo² xun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔː³⁵ syːn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: fo³ son²
    • Sinological IPA: /fo³¹ sɔn¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Hui'an)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hér-chûn
    • Tâi-lô: hér-tsûn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hə⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sun²⁴/
    • IPA (Hui'an): /hə⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sun²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hé-chûn
    • Tâi-lô: hé-tsûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hefzuun
    • IPA (Xiamen): /he⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sun²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Tainan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hóe-chûn
    • Tâi-lô: hué-tsûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoefzuun
    • IPA (Tainan): /hue⁵³⁻⁵⁵ t͡sun²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hue⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sun¹³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: huê² zung⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hué tsûng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hue⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡suŋ⁵⁵/
  • (Leizhou)
    • Leizhou Pinyin: hue² zung⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /huɛ³¹ t͡suŋ²²/

Noun

火船

1. (Hainanese, Hakka, Leizhou Min, Southern Pinghua, Teochew, dated in Cantonese) steamer; steamship
   • 1888, James Dyer Ball, Cantonese Made Easy, Hongkong: The 'China Mail' Office, page 22:

     火船幾時開身呢。有大多搭客咯。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     火船几时开身呢。有大多搭客咯。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     fo² syun⁴ gei² si⁴ hoi¹ san¹ ne¹. jau⁵ daai⁶ do¹ daap³ haak³ lok³. [Jyutping]

     When does the steamer leave? There are a great many passengers.

2. (Southern Min, dated) small steamer; small steamship
3. (Quanzhou Hokkien, figurative) billowy dense smoke
4. (Hui'an Hokkien) motorboat; motor vessel

Synonyms

• (steamship): 汽船 (qìchuán), 輪船／轮船 (lúnchuán)

Dialectal synonyms of 輪船 (“motor ship; steamship”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		輪船
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	輪船
	Taiwan	輪船
	Harbin	輪船, 火船兒
	Singapore	輪船
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	輪船
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	輪船
	Xi'an	輪船
	Xining	輪船
	Xuzhou	輪船
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	輪船
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	輪船
	Wuhan	輪船, 洋船 dated
	Guiyang	輪船
	Liuzhou	輪船, 火船 dated, steamship
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	輪船, 小火輪 small, in rivers, 火輪 dated, less big
	Hefei	輪船, 洋船, 小火輪 small, in rivers
Cantonese	Guangzhou	火船 dated, 火船仔 small, 電船 small, in rivers
	Hong Kong	輪船
	Dongguan	輪船, 火輪船, 大火船 big
	Yangjiang	火船, 電船 small, in rivers
Gan	Nanchang	洋船 dated, 小火輪 small, in rivers
	Pingxiang	輪船
Hakka	Meixian	輪船, 火船, 電船 steamboat, in rivers
	Yudu	火輪船
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	輪船
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	輪船
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	輪船
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	輪船
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	輪船
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	輪船
Huizhou	Jixi	輪船
Jin	Taiyuan	輪船
	Xinzhou	輪船
Northern Min	Jian'ou	輪船, 火輪船
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	車船, 火輪船, 洋船 dated
Southern Min	Xiamen	火船, 電船 small, in rivers
	Tainan	火船
	Chaozhou	火船, 電船 small, in rivers
	Leizhou	火船
	Haikou	火船
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	火船
Wu	Shanghai	輪船, 火輪船
	Shanghai (Chongming)	輪船
	Suzhou	輪船
	Danyang	輪船, 汽油船 dated
	Hangzhou	輪船
	Ningbo	輪船, 火輪船, 火輪
	Wenzhou	輪船
	Jinhua	輪船
Xiang	Changsha	輪船, 洋船 dated
	Shuangfeng	輪船, 洋船

• (small steamer): (Hokkien, Teochew) 火煙船／火烟船, 電船／电船
• (billowy dense smoke): 火煙船／火烟船
• (motorboat): 摩托船 (mótuōchuán), 汽艇 (qìtǐng), 機船／机船 (jīchuán); (Xiang) 汽划子