1 variant: 船 chuán

1 ship ticket

1 illegal immigration

2 to stowaway (on a ship)

3 to steal across the international border

4 to run a blockade

1 to row a boat

2 rowing boat

3 rowing (sport)

1 Guandu district of Kunming city 昆明市[Kūn míng shì], Yunnan

1 lit. to board a pirate ship (idiom)

2 fig. to associate with criminals

1 lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wèi Hé] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liú Bāng] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiàng Yǔ] of Chu)

2 fig. to feign one thing while doing another

3 to cheat under cover of a diversion

1 lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wèi Hé] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liú Bāng] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiàng Yǔ] of Chu)

2 fig. to feign one thing while doing another

3 to cheat under cover of a diversion

1 the tide rises, the boat floats (idiom); fig. to change with the overall trend

2 to develop according to the situation

1 lit. to stand with each foot in a different boat (idiom)

2 fig. to have it both ways

3 to run after two hares

4 (especially) to have two lovers at the same time