No. 1,688 in Japanese
隻
A counter for ships, boats, or birds.
In a sentence
私は日本に一隻の船を買った。
I bought one ship in Japan.
Here, '隻' is used as a counter specific to ships and boats.
漁師は毎日数隻の船で海に出る。
Fishermen go to sea daily with several ships.
In this sentence, '隻' is used to express the number of ships ('数隻' means several ships).
彼らの艦隊には百隻以上の船が含まれていた。
Their fleet included more than a hundred ships.
'隻' is used here as part of the phrase '百隻以上' to indicate the number of ships in the fleet.
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