basin

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
皿 meaning component

  Meaning component

mǐn

  

dish

于 sound component

  Sound component

  

at

Evolution

盂 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
盂 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
盂 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

basin; cup; wide-mouthed jar or pot

Most common words with 盂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

痰盂

spittoon

basin

肾盂

renal pelvis (medicine)

盂县

Yu county in Yangquan, Shanxi

钵盂

alms bowl

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷ(r)a

hju

a formation of a hunting party


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4100th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+76C2

Shuowen

“盂,飯器也。从皿,亏聲。”


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