fǔ
cauldron
Phonosemantic compound. 金 represents the meaning and 父 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Warring States (475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 釜
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
Busan Metropolitan City in South Gyeongsang Province 慶尚南道|庆尚南道[Qìngshàngnándào], South Korea | ||
kettle | ||
to burn one's boats | ||
to pull the carpet from under sb | ||
Busan Metropolitan City in South Gyeongsang Province 慶尚南道|庆尚南道[Qìngshàngnándào], South Korea |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.6407% of movies
3326th most common character in movies
3786th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+91DC |
Shuowen | “鬴，鍑屬。从鬲，甫聲。釜，鬴或从金，父聲。” |
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