Do you know the meaning of this Chinese word?
It translates to ‘boat’ in English. Chinese characters, ideograms, can be formed from radicals which themselves are pictograms, which have their own individual meanings. The characters forming the word ‘boat’ are as follows:1,2
vessel eight people
1. The Discovery of Genesis, C.H. Kang and E.R. Nelson, 1979. 2. The Incredible Chinese Script, S.H. Tow, 2002.