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champan

champan is the alternative form of sampan.

Meaning of sampan

Noun

sampan (plural sampans)

  1. (historical) A Chinese flat-bottomed wooden boat propelled by two oars.
    • We traveled down the Min River from Nanping in a small sampan, flying the American flag for protection against bandits and soldiers. Those were the days when the Stars and Stripes still afforded some protection.1953, John C. Caldwell, China Coast Family, Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 96

Forms of champan

pluralchampans

Questions about champan

What is champan the alternative form of?
Champan is the alternative form of sampan.

Words near champan in the dictionary

  1. champaine
  2. champak
  3. champaka
  4. champakas
  5. champaks
  6. champan
  7. champana
  8. champanas
  9. champane
  10. champanes
  11. champans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: champan (page history and authors); sampan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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