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噸: ton (old spelling)

ton (old spelling)
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Readings

On
トン
Kun
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Old kanji spelling for ton (トン). Today usually written in katakana, but 噸 survives in shipping words such as 総噸数 (gross tonnage).

Key words

噸とんton
噸数とんすうtonnage
総噸数そうとんすうgross tonnage
噸税とんぜいtonnage dues
英噸えいとんlong ton

Example sentences

This cargo ship is a large vessel with a gross tonnage of over thirty thousand.

In the old newspaper, the size of the ship was written as "5,000 tons."

At that port, tonnage dues are charged to arriving ships.

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