cauldron

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
金 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

父 sound component

  Sound component

  

father

Evolution

釜 Bronze script Warring States (475-221 BC)

Bronze script

Warring States (475-221 BC)
釜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
釜 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
釜 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

cauldron, pot, kettle; kettle; cauldron

Most common words with 釜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

釜山

Busan Metropolitan City in South Gyeongsang Province 慶尚南道|庆尚南道[Qìng​shàng​nán​dào], South Korea

kettle

破釜沉舟

to burn one's boats

釜底抽薪

to pull the carpet from under sb

釜山市

Busan Metropolitan City in South Gyeongsang Province 慶尚南道|庆尚南道[Qìng​shàng​nán​dào], 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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