航 (háng): boat, ship, craft
航 (háng) is a Chinese character meaning “boat.” Classified as HSK Level 4 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 舟 (semantic) and 亢 (phonetic). It ranks #773 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 航 ship. Its radical form 舟 (boat) appears in many related characters such as 般 (bān, sort), 船 (chuán, boat), 舰 (jiàn, warship).
Definitions
- boat
- ship
- craft
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 航
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 航行verb | háng xíng | to sail |
| 导航verb | dǎo háng | (lit. and fig.) to navigate |
| 宇航员noun | yǔ háng yuán | astronaut |
| 航线noun | háng xiàn | air or shipping route |
| 航海verb | háng hǎi | to sail the seas |
| 迷航verb | mí háng | (of a ship, aircraft or migratory bird) to lose its way |
| 航向 | háng xiàng | course |
| 航道noun | háng dào | waterway |
| 航天verb | háng tiān | space flight |
| 返航verb | fǎn háng | to return to the point of departure |
| 航空局 | háng kōng jú | aviation agency |
| 宇航局 | yǔ háng jú | space agency |
| 启航verb | qǐ háng | (of a ship) to set sail |
| 远航verb | yuǎn háng | to travel a great distance by sea or air |
| 航程noun | háng chéng | flight |
航 appears in 101 compound words: 49 as the first character, 37 as the last, and 15 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 航 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (5)
Example Sentences
老师教我们航字的发音和笔顺。
lǎo shī jiào wǒ men háng zì de fā yīn hé bǐ shùn .
The teacher taught us the pronunciation and stroke order of the character "航."
受冬季风暴影响 美国数千架次航班被取消
shòu dōng jì fēng bào yǐng xiǎng měi guó shǔ qiān jià cì háng bān bèi qǔ xiāo
Thousands of flights in the United States were canceled due to the winter storm
加拿大航空因安全局势暂停墨西哥巴亚尔塔港营运
jiā ná dà háng kōng yīn ān quán jú shì zàn tíng mò xī gē bā yà ěr tǎ gǎng yíng yùn
Air Canada suspended operations in the port of Vallarta, Mexico due to the security situation
千城百县看中国·护航春运丨河北交通:智慧高速守护假..
qiān chéng bǎi xiàn kàn zhōng guó hù háng chūn yùn 丨 hé běi jiāo tōng : zhì huì gāo sù shǒu hù jiǎ . .
Thousands of cities and counties look at China and escort the Spring Festival丨Hebei Transportation: Smart highway guards the holiday:
大年初三车间灯就亮了,航天老厂通过自研AI平台,稳..
dà nián chū sān chē jiān dēng jiù liàng le , háng tiān lǎo hǎn tōng guò zì yán A I píng tái , wěn . .
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the workshop lights were turned on, and the old aerospace factory was steadily developed through the self-developed AI platform.
新春走基层丨国网株洲供电公司党员突击队护航春节绿色..
xīn chūn zǒu jī céng 丨 guó wǎng zhū zhōu gōng diàn gōng sī dǎng yuán tū jī duì hù háng chūn jié lǜ sè . .
New Year to the grassroots丨State Grid Zhuzhou Power Supply Company party member commando escorts the Spring Festival green:
数艘游艇在远方的海洋并列航行。
Shù sōu yóutǐng zài yuǎnfāng de hǎiyáng bìngliè hángxíng.
Several yachts were sailing side by side far out at sea.
一艘巨大的液货船刚刚启航。
Yī sōu jùdà de yè huòchuán gānggang qǐháng.
A huge tanker cast off just now.
你们一天提供几班飞往纽约的航班？
Nǐmen yī tiān tígōng jǐ bān fēi wǎng Niǔyuē de hángbān?
How many flights to New York do you offer a day?
您寄航空还是海运？
Nín jì hángkōng háishì hǎiyùn?
Do you like to send it by air mail or by surface mail?
Character Family
舟 Radical Family — Characters sharing the boat radical
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