盂
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basin; wide-mouthed jar or pot
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 皿 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 盂
- Common rank
- #2,920
- Unicode
- U+76C2
Formation & memory
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Words with 盂
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 盂方水方 | If the basin is square, the water in it will also be square. (idiom) | |
| 盂兰盆会 | Feast of All Souls (fifteenth day of seventh lunar month) (Buddhism) | |
| 盂县 | Yu County or Yuxian, a county in Yangquan City 陽泉市|阳泉市[Yang2 quan2 Shi4], Shanxi | |
| 水盂 | water pot or goblet (for Chinese calligraphy) | |
| 盂兰盆 | see 盂蘭盆會|盂兰盆会[Yu2 lan2 pen2 hui4] | |
| 盎盂相击 | (idiom) to quarrel | |
| 盎盂相敲 | (idiom) to quarrel | |
| 痰盂儿 | erhua variant of 痰盂[tan2 yu2] | |
| 瓶盂 | jar; flask; vase; bottle | |
| 肾盂炎 | pyelitis (medicine) | |
| 肾盂 | renal pelvis (medicine) | |
| 痰盂 | spittoon | |
| 钵盂 | alms bowl |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 于 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 于 sound part | at, in, on; to, from; alas! | |
| 宇 | building, house, room, structure; space, the universe | |
| 迂 | abstruse, pedantic, unrealistic | |
| 芋 | taro | |
| 吁 | alas; to sigh | |
| 竽 | free reed mouth organ | |
| 圩 | dike, embankment | |
| 盱 | eyes wide open; to gaze in astonishment | |
| 纡 | to twist, to turn, to bend; to distort | |
| 玗 | semi-precious stone | |
| 邘 | a state in Henan province |