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junk

type of vessel typically of Southeast Asian or East Asian origin
Thing boat_type Q205011
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Summary

junk is a boat type[1]. junk ranks in the top 0.66% of boat type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,679 views/month, #1 of 151).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: sailboat[3]
  • Commons category: Junk (ship)[4]
  • Country of origin: People's Republic of China[5]
  • Described at URL: https://ich.unesco.org/en/USL/00321[6], https://ich.unesco.org/fr/USL/00321[7], https://ich.unesco.org/es/USL/00321[8]
  • Described by source: The Nuttall Encyclopædia[9], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10]
  • Has characteristic: robustness[11]
  • Uses: bulkhead[12]
  • Intangible cultural heritage status: List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding[13]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[14]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[15]

Why It Matters

junk has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] junk is known by 58 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

People's Republic of China

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q294935
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q294935, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country of origin → —
    Instance of → boat type
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007536260005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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