TSUMUGU · A2 (est.) · 字
船
船 ＝ 舟 ＋ 㕣
ㄔㄨㄢˊ · chuán
noun — boat, ship
字源 FORM — what the parts do
舟義a boat — the dugout-canoe radical
㕣聲gives the sounda mouth (口) over a valley-mouth (八) — water running out
A boat (舟) for the meaning, and a phonetic on the right whose graph carries two tellings: the received 說文 reads it 鉛省聲, 段玉裁 emends to 㕣聲. Either way the right side is the sound; 舟 is the older picture, 船 spells it out larger. Together the everyday word for a vessel: 船隻、輪船.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
一條舟（舟）划出去，水從口子（㕣）裡流——船。
A boat (舟) pushes off, water spilling through the mouth (㕣) — a ship.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)船、船隻— boat, ship常用
→輪船、帆船— steamer; sailboat
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
舟zhōuthe older word inside — a boat before 船 spelled it out般＝ ＋ 殳bānshares on the left — a boat being poled with a hand