Traditional: 船長
船长 (chuán zhǎng) means “captain (of a boat); skipper”. It is an HSK 6 Chinese word (traditional 船長) in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
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船长下令立即起航。
Chuán zhǎng xiàlìng lìjí qǐháng.
The captain ordered an immediate departure.
Updated: 2026-07-18