渡し|わたしwatashi[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounferry (crossing); ferry(boat)
2. suffixdelivery

• Synonym渡し船わたしぶねNeutralThe boat itself, shuttling between the two banks; 「渡し」 usually means the crossing point or the act of ferrying.
• SynonymフェリーNeutralLoanword for a large ferry carrying passengers, vehicles or cargo; 「渡し」 typically suggests a small boat on a river.
• SynonymフェリーボートNeutralThe full form of 「フェリー」; in everyday use people simply say 「フェリー」.
• Synonym渡船とせんWrittenA written, Sino-Japanese word for a ferry; in speech 「渡し船」 or 「渡し」 is normal.
• Related乗合船のりあいぶねNeutralA boat carrying many passengers on a regular run, or a fishing or angling boat shared by several people; stresses shared use, not river crossing.
• Related連絡船れんらくせんNeutralScheduled passenger and cargo ships linking the two shores of a strait or lake, like the old 「青函連絡船」; stresses the route connecting two places.
• Related通船つうせんWrittenA boat plying back and forth carrying people and goods; rarely used.
• Related通い船かよいぶねNeutralA boat making daily scheduled runs; colloquial and rarely used.

For a river crossing point or the act of ferrying, use 「渡し」, as in 「矢切の渡し」; for the boat itself say 「渡し船」, for larger ferries 「フェリー」, and for strait services 「連絡船」.

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1. 物ものなどを他人たにんに渡わたすこと。
2. 人ひとや物ものを船ふねで対岸たいがんに運はこぶこと。
3. 人ひとや物ものを船ふねで対岸たいがんに運はこぶ所ところ。川かわなどの対岸たいがんを結むすぶ航路こうろ。
4. 「わたす」の連用形れんようけい。