漁船
Meanings
1
fishing boat; fishing vessel
General term for a boat used in commercial or small-scale fishing.
Many fishing boats are anchored in the harbor.
This fishing vessel is used for deep-sea fishing.
Usage patterns
- 漁船で漁に出るto go out fishing on a fishing boat
My father goes out fishing on his boat every morning.
- 漁船が拿捕されるfor a fishing boat to be seized/captured (e.g. by another country's coast guard)
The fishing boat was seized by a foreign patrol vessel.
- 漁船が沈没するfor a fishing boat to sink
The fishing boat sank in the typhoon.