About
The character "舱" (cāng), meaning cabin or hold, is a relatively late formation in the Chinese writing system, created to specify a compartment within a vessel or vehicle. Its structure is a semantic-phonetic compound, combining the radical "舟" (zhōu), which denotes a boat or ship, with the phonetic component "仓" (cāng), which also contributes meaning related to storage or containment. The traditional form of the character, "艙", uses the more complex traditional variant of the phonetic, "倉", but the conceptual framework remains identical. Its meaning has remained consistently specialized, referring to an enclosed space within a means of transport, such as a ship's hold, an aircraft's cockpit, or a spacecraft's module, extending the core idea of a vessel's internal chamber from its nautical origins to modern contexts of aviation and aerospace.
Example Sentences Hide
我坐在船舱里。
请把舱门关好。
货舱里装满了货物。
客舱服务非常周到。
太空舱的设计很先进。
飞行员检查了机舱设备。
船舱的窗户可以打开透气。
紧急情况下，必须优先疏散客舱乘客。