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缽

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵

钵

🇨🇳

earthenware

HSK 10

Objects →Tools →Implements

bō

ハチ、ハツ

Phonosemantic compound. 缶 represents the meaning and 本 represents the sound.

Components

Traditional (缽)

缶 earthen+ 本 book =

缽 earthenware

缶 Meaning component

fǒu earthen

earthen crock or jar

本 Phonetic component

běn book

root, origin, source

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Simplified (钵)

钅 metal 🇨🇳+ 本 book =

钵 earthenware basin

钅 Meaning component

jīn metal 🇨🇳

metal

钅 is a component form of 金.

本 Phonetic component

běn book

root, origin, source

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Notes

Similar Characters

窑 coal (simp)缸 vat 缺 deficient (trad)罂 long (simp)罄 exhaust 罅 fissure 罈 jar (trad)罌 long (trad)罐 jar 匋 pottery 寶 treasure (trad)珤 jewel 体 body (jp)笨 stupid 苯 benzene 钵 earthenware basin (simp)

Chinese

钵 / 缽 [bō]

small earthenware plate or basin; a monk's alms bowl; Sanskrit paatra

Example Sentences

CHINESE WORDS (9)

衣钵 [yībō] #37,139

the cassock and alms bowl of a Buddhist master passed on to the favorite disciple (Buddhism)

钵盂 [bōyú] #57,810

钵头 [bōtóu] #64,463

earthen bowl (Shanghainese)

墨尔钵 [Mò'ěrbō]

see 墨爾本|墨尔本[Mò'ěrběn]

托钵修会 [tuōbōxiūhuì]

mendicant religious order in Catholicism

盆钵 [pénbō]

generic term for pottery

研钵 [yánbō]

mortar (bowl for grinding with pestle)

继承衣钵 [jìchéngyībō]

to take up sb's mantle

金钵 [jīnbō]

(gold) alms bowl (of a Buddhist monk)