# 火船
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): fo$^2$ syun$^4$
* Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): fo$^3$ son$^2$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): hér-chûn / hé-chûn / hóe-chûn
    (Teochew, Peng'im): huê$^2$ zung$^5$
    (Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): hue$^2$ zung$^5$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: fo$^2$ syun$^4$
*** Yale: fó syùhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: fo$^2$ syn$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: fo$^2$ xun$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /fɔː³⁵ syːn²¹/
* Hakka
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: fo$^3$ son$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /fo³¹ sɔn¹¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Hui'an)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hér-chûn
*** Tâi-lô: hér-tsûn
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /hə⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sun²⁴/
*** IPA (Hui'an): /hə⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sun²⁴/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hé-chûn
*** Tâi-lô: hé-tsûn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: hefzuun
*** IPA (Xiamen): /he⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sun²⁴/
** (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Tainan)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hóe-chûn
*** Tâi-lô: hué-tsûn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: hoefzuun
*** IPA (Tainan): /hue⁵³⁻⁵⁵ t͡sun²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /hue⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sun¹³/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: huê$^2$ zung$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hué tsûng
*** Sinological IPA : /hue⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡suŋ⁵⁵/
** (Leizhou)
*** Leizhou Pinyin: hue$^2$ zung$^5$
*** Sinological IPA: /huɛ³¹ t͡suŋ²²/

### Noun

火船
* (Hainanese, Hakka, Leizhou Min, Nanning Pinghua, Teochew, dated in Cantonese) steamer; steamship
** 1888, James Dyer Ball, Cantonese Made Easy, Hongkong: The 'China Mail' Office, page 22:
       fo$^2$ syun$^4$ gei$^2$ si$^4$ hoi$^1$ san$^1$ ne$^1$. jau$^5$ daai$^6$ do$^1$ daap$^3$ haak$^3$ lok$^3$. [Jyutping]
       When does the steamer leave? There are a great many passengers.
* (Southern Min, dated) small steamer; small steamship
* (Quanzhou Hokkien, figurative) billowy dense smoke
* (Hui'an Hokkien) motorboat; motor vessel

#### Synonyms

* (steamship): 汽船 (qìchuán), 輪船／轮船 (lúnchuán)
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 輪船 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 輪船 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 輪船 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Harbin | 輪船, 火船兒 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Singapore | 輪船 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 輪船 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 輪船 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 輪船 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xining | 輪船 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xuzhou | 輪船 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Ürümqi | 輪船 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 輪船 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 輪船, 洋船 dated |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guiyang | 輪船 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liuzhou | 輪船, 火船 dated, steamship |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 輪船, 小火輪 small, in rivers, 火輪 dated, less big |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Hefei | 輪船, 洋船, 小火輪 small, in rivers |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 火船 dated, 火船仔 small, 電船 small, in rivers |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 輪船 |
| Cantonese | Dongguan | 輪船, 火輪船, 大火船 big |
| Cantonese | Yangjiang | 火船, 電船 small, in rivers |
| Gan | Nanchang | 洋船 dated, 小火輪 small, in rivers |
| Gan | Pingxiang | 輪船 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 輪船, 火船, 電船 steamboat, in rivers |
| Hakka | Yudu | 火輪船 |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 輪船 |
| Hakka | Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 輪船 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 輪船 |
| Hakka | Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 輪船 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 輪船 |
| Hakka | Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 輪船 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 輪船 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 輪船 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 輪船 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 輪船, 火輪船 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 車船, 火輪船, 洋船 dated |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 火船, 電船 small, in rivers |
| Southern Min | Tainan | 火船 |
| Southern Min | Chaozhou | 火船, 電船 small, in rivers |
| Southern Min | Leizhou | 火船 |
| Southern Min | Haikou | 火船 |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 火船 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 輪船, 火輪船 |
| Wu | Shanghai (Chongming) | 輪船 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 輪船 |
| Wu | Danyang | 輪船, 汽油船 dated |
| Wu | Hangzhou | 輪船 |
| Wu | Ningbo | 輪船, 火輪船, 火輪 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 輪船 |
| Wu | Jinhua | 輪船 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 輪船, 洋船 dated |
| Xiang | Shuangfeng | 輪船, 洋船 |
* (small steamer): (Hokkien, Teochew) 火煙船／火烟船, 電船／电船
* (billowy dense smoke): 火煙船／火烟船
* (motorboat): 摩托船 (mótuōchuán), 汽艇 (qìtǐng), 機船／机船 (jīchuán); (Xiang) 汽划子