碗
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bowl; cup; CL:隻|只[zhi1],個|个[ge4]
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- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 石 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 碗
- Common rank
- #1,830
- Unicode
- U+7897
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Formation & memory
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Words with 碗
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 吃着碗里，看着锅里 | lit. eyeing what's in the pot as one eats from one's bowl (idiom); not content with what o… | |
| 一碗水端平 | lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom); fig. to be impartial | |
| 端起碗吃肉，放下筷子骂娘 | lit. to eat meat from one's bowl, then put down one's chopsticks and scold one's mother (i… | |
| 金饭碗 | secure and lucrative job | |
| 洗碗机 | dishwasher | |
| 吃着碗里，瞧着锅里 | see 吃著碗裡，看著鍋裡|吃着碗里，看着锅里[chi1 zhe5 wan3 li3 , kan4 zhe5 guo1 li3] | |
| 洗碗精 | dishwashing liquid | |
| 铁饭碗 | secure employment (lit. iron rice bowl) | |
| 超级碗 | Super Bowl (American football championship game) | |
| 海碗 | very large bowl | |
| 碗公 | (Tw) very large bowl | |
| 盘碗 | dishes; crockery; plates and cups | |
| 洗碗池 | kitchen sink | |
| 擦碗布 | dish cloth; tea towel | |
| 饭碗 | rice bowl; fig. livelihood; job; way of making a living | |
| 洗碗 | to wash the dishes | |
| 崩大碗 | gotu kola (Centella asiatica), herbaceous plant | |
| 茶碗 | teacup | |
| 破碗破摔 | lit. to smash a cracked pot; fig. to treat oneself as hopeless and act crazily | |
| 盖碗 | lidded teacup |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 宛 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 宛 sound part | to seem; as if; crooked | |
| 腕 | wrist | |
| 婉 | amiable, graceful, tactful; restrained | |
| 豌 | peas | |
| 菀 | luxuriant foliage | |
| 惋 | to regret, to be sorry | |
| 箢 | used in 箢箕[yuan1 ji1] and 箢篼[yuan1 dou1]; Taiwan pr. [wan3] | |
| 畹 | a field of 20-30 mu | |
| 剜 | to cut; to cut out, to pick out, to scoop out | |
| 琬 | fine jade; nobility |