What word can refer either to trash or a type of Chinese ship?
Junk (ship) the Portuguese "junco" from the Javanese or Malay "jong". The modern Standard Chinese word for an ocean-going wooden cargo vessel is "cáo" (). Views diverge on whether the origin is from a dialect of Chinese; Pierre-Yves Manguin and Zoetmulder, amongst others, points to an Old Javanese origin, the word jong can be traced from an old Javanese inscription in the 9th century. It entered Malay language by 15th century, when a Chinese word list identify it as Malay word for ship. The Malay Maritime Code, first drawn up in the late 15th century, uses junk frequently as the word for
Type 639 oceanographic surveillance ship research, or Ce (测), meaning survey, because these ships are classified either as oceanographic or hydrographic research. The first Chinese character denotes which fleet the ship is service with, with East (Dong, 东) for East Sea Fleet, North (Bei, 北) for North Sea Fleet, and South (Nan, 南) for South Sea Fleet. Type 639 oceanographic surveillance ship Type 639 is a type of ocean surveillance ship is the newest oceanographic surveillance ship (as of mid 2014) developed by China for its People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). A single unit of Type 639 with pennant number Bei-diao 991 is currently in