U+8239 "船" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
船
U+8239 "船" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "boat" or "ship," and it is used in various East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Its structure combines the radical for "boat" or "vessel" on the left side with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its logographic origins in the Han script. This character appears frequently in compound words related to maritime travel, transportation, and naval terminology, and it has been encoded in Unicode’s CJK Unified Ideographs block to support digital text representation across modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8239 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 船 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 船 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x88 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8239 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008239 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8239 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B2EE |
| kCCCII | 215446 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5C73 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5C73 |
| kCangjie | HYCR |
| kCantonese | syun4 |
| kCihaiT | 1118.305 |
| kCowles | 3999 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1468.150 |
| kDefinition | ship, boat, vessel |
| kEACC | 215446 |
| kFanqie | 食川 |
| kFenn | 719A |
| kFennIndex | 102.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2846.0 |
| kGB0 | 2012 |
| kGB1 | 2012 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0229e |
| kHangul | 선:0E |
| kHanYu | 53060.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | chuán(923) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53060.010:chuán |
| kHKGlyph | 3393 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1468.150 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53060.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1010.170 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-342C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B2EE |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4125 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E2C6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-604F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5C73 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-644C |
| kJapanese | セン エン ゼン ふね ふな |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:2345 |
| kJapaneseKun | FUNE |
| kJapaneseOn | SEN |
| kJis0 | 3305 |
| kKangXi | 1010.170 |
| kKarlgren | 232 |
| kKorean | SEN |
| kLau | 2928 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5307 |
| kMandarin | chuán |
| kMatthews | 1447 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2774 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021400 MJ021400:E0103 MJ021401:E0104 MJ021402:E0105 |
| kMorohashi | 30407:E0105 |
| kNelson | 3873 |
| kPhonetic | 1630 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2727+137.6.5 V+13471+137.6.5 V+13886+137.6.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 137.5 |
| kSBGY | 141.28 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8221<kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 568.19 568.20 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | chuán粵syun4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5307 |
| kTang | *jhiuɛn |
| kTGHZ2013 | 052.020:chuán |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thuyền |
| kXerox | 243:140 |
| kXHC1983 | 0165.020:chuán |