wǎn

bowl

Evolution

盌 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
盌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

wǎn

bowl, basin, cup

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wǎn

variant of [wǎn]

Most common words with 盌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

bowl

饭碗

rice bowl

洗碗机

dishwasher

洗碗

to wash the dishes

铁饭碗

secure employment (lit. iron rice bowl)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.7091% of movies

1871st most common character in movies

1939th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+76CC

Shuowen

“盌,小盂也。从皿,夗聲。”


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