钵
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small earthenware plate or basin; a monk's alms bowl; Sanskrit paatra
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 金 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 缽
- Common rank
- #3,033
- Unicode
- U+94B5
Formation & memory
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Words with 钵
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 托钵修会 | mendicant religious order in Catholicism; Franciscan order | |
| 墨尔钵 | see 墨爾本|墨尔本[Mo4 er3 ben3] | |
| 继承衣钵 | to take up sb's mantle; to follow in sb's steps | |
| 钵头 | earthen bowl (Shanghainese) | |
| 金钵 | (gold) alms bowl (of a Buddhist monk) | |
| 衣钵 | the cassock and alms bowl of a Buddhist master passed on to the favorite disciple (Buddhis… | |
| 乳钵 | small mortar used for grinding medicines into a powder (TCM) | |
| 研钵 | mortar (bowl for grinding with pestle) | |
| 盆钵 | generic term for pottery | |
| 钵盂 | alms bowl |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 本 — compare how they read.