Illustration: A modest coastal paddle steamer leaves a Japanese harbor during the Meiji period. Its side paddle churns the water as exhaust rises from the funnel and a small steam plume escapes near the machinery.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

汽き船せん

kisen

steamship

Example sentences

運うんよく汽船きせんが通とおりかかって彼かれらは救助きゅうじょされた。
As luck would have it, a steamer passed by and they were saved.
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汽船きせんは見みえなくなった。
The steam ship has gone out of sight.
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汽船きせんは疑うたがいもなくそれ自体じたい１つの都市としである。
A steamship is, without a doubt, a city in itself.
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Kanji in 汽船

汽vapor; steamOnキ
船ship; boatOnセンKunふね・ふな-

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