Entry
  1. Noun

    tugboat; tug; towboat

  2. Noun, Suru verb

    tugging (a boat); towing; towage

Also written 引船【ひきふね】引き船【ひきふね】曳き船【ひきふね】引き舟【ひきふね】引舟【ひきふね】

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Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

pull, tug, jerk, admit, install, quote, refer to

Kun
ひ.く
On
エイ
Strokes
6
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Radical
say

Built from

Used in names as

ひきびき

Dictionary and index codes (14)
CodeReference
4-6-4SKIP code
0a6.23The Kanji Dictionary
5000.6Four corner code
66f3Unicode hex code
1-17-40JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
100Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2417New Nelson (John Haig)
4348Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2961Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2848Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2863Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
14282Morohashi
zhuai4, yi4Pinyin reading
yeKorean reading
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

ship, boat

Kun
ふねふな-
On
セン
Strokes
11
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N3
Frequency
713 of 2500
Radical
boat
WaniKani
Level 7

Built from

Used in names as

Dictionary and index codes (32)
CodeReference
1-6-5SKIP code
6c5.4The Kanji Dictionary
2846.0Four corner code
877deroo
8239Unicode hex code
1-33-05JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3873Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4939New Nelson (John Haig)
1341New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1700Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
906Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1229Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1874Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2019Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
313A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1391Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
314Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
30407Morohashi
158A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
376Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
377Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
266sakade
860Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
175henshall3
208Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
647Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1595Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1892Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
chuan2Pinyin reading
seonKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
7WaniKani level