瓮
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pottery container for water, wine etc
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 瓦 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 瓮
- Common rank
- #2,747
- Unicode
- U+74EE
Formation & memory
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Words with 瓮
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 好酒沉瓮底 | lit. the best wine is at the bottom of the jug (idiom); fig. the best is saved for last | |
| 瓮安县 | Weng'an, a county in Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 黔南布依族苗族自治州[Qian2 nan2 Bu… | |
| 请君入瓮 | lit. please Sir, get into the boiling pot (idiom); fig. to give sb a taste of his own medi… | |
| 瓮安 | see 甕安縣|瓮安县[Weng4 an1 Xian4] | |
| 瓮中之鳖 | lit. like a turtle in a jar; to be trapped (idiom) | |
| 瓮城 | enceinte of a city gate; barbican entrance to a city | |
| 瓮声瓮气 | to speak in a low muffled voice (idiom) | |
| 瓮菜 | variant of 蕹菜[weng4 cai4] | |
| 瓮中捉鳖 | (lit.) to catch a turtle in a jar (idiom); (fig.) to go after easy prey | |
| 瓮棺葬 | urn burial | |
| 蓬户瓮牖 | thatched house, broken urn windows (idiom); poor person's house; humble home | |
| 瓮棺 | funerary urn |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 公 — compare how they read.