Traditional Chinese sailing ships and small boats of East and Southeast Asia, including the junk with its battened sails and the flat-bottomed sampan. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the boat a junk or sampan. It excludes Arab dhows and European ships. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Wikipedia: Junk (ship)
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A junk (Chinese: 船; pinyin: chuán) is a type of Chinese sailing ship characterized by a central rudder, an overhanging flat transom, watertight bulkheads, and a flat-bottomed design.
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A junk (Chinese: 船; pinyin: chuán) is a type of Chinese sailing ship characterized by a central rudder, an overhanging flat transom, watertight bulkheads, and a flat-bottomed design.
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A sampan is a relatively flat-bottomed wooden boat found in East, Southeast, and South Asia.
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