ふね

Japanese

Alternative spellings
船舟槽 (uncommon)

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE.^[1] From Proto-Japonic *punay.

Standalone form of 船(ふな), 舟(ふな) (funa, older form, in compounds).

ふね • (fune)

船, 舟: [from 712] a boat:
1. 船: [from 712] a ship, vessel, larger ship
2. 舟: [from 712] a boat, ship, small ship
船, 舟, 槽: [from 712] a box for storing:
1. 船, 舟: [from 712] a container used for storing liquids such as water and sake
2. 船, 舟: [unknown] a box used for pressing sake and soy sauce
3. 船, 舟, 槽: [from c. 934] a horse trough
4. 船, 舟: [from c. 1797] a coffin
5. 船, 舟: [unknown] the base of a shallow container that fish, shellfish, and sashimi is sold out of
6. 船, 舟: [from 1840] a box used to store candy
7. 船, 舟: [from mid. Edo period] an 桶 (oke) used to store rice and grains
8. 船, 舟: [from 1463] a container for storing bonsai trees and other objects
船, 舟: [unknown] a treasure ship
船, 舟: [from 1829] abbreviation of 引船 (hikifune, “a tugboat”); seating at a theatre that directly faces the stage
船, 舟: [unknown] This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
船, 舟: [from 1786] synonym of 船饅頭 (funamanjū, “a prostitute who worked from a boat on the river Sumida”)

ふね • (-fune)

^ “船・舟・槽”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN