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碗

碗

Translingual

Han character

碗 (radical 112 石+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一口十弓山 (MRJNU), four-corner 13612, composition ⿰石宛)

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 832, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24306
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1249, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2440, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+7897

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 碗
alt. forms 盌
椀

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
涴 *qoːls, *qoːn, *qonʔ
埦 *qoːn
豌 *qoːn
剜 *qoːn
眢 *qoːn, *qon
蜿 *qoːn, *qon, *qonʔ
帵 *qoːn
碗 *qoːnʔ
椀 *qoːnʔ
盌 *qoːnʔ
腕 *qoːns
惋 *qoːns
捥 *qoːns
睕 *qoːns, *qonʔ, *qoːd
琬 *qoːns, *qonʔ
鴛 *quːn, *qon
鵷 *qon
惌 *qon, *qonʔ
宛 *qon, *qonʔ
怨 *qon, *qons
葾 *qon
夗 *qonʔ
婉 *qonʔ
菀 *qonʔ, *qud
苑 *qonʔ, *qons
踠 *qonʔ
畹 *qonʔ, *qons
倇 *qonʔ
晼 *qonʔ
黦 *qod, *qod, *qud
焥 *qoːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qoːnʔ) : semantic 石 ‎(“stone”) + phonetic 宛 ‎(OC *qon, *qonʔ).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 碗
Mandarin Beijing /uan²¹⁴/
Harbin /uan²¹³/
Tianjin /van¹³/
Jinan /vã⁵⁵/
Qingdao /vã⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /uan⁵³/
Xi'an /uã⁵³/
Xining /uã⁵³/
Yinchuan /van⁵³/
Lanzhou /vɛ̃n⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /van⁵¹/
Wuhan /uan⁴²/
Chengdu /uan⁵³/
Guiyang /uan⁴²/
Kunming /uã̠⁵³/
Nanjing /uaŋ²¹²/
Hefei /ʊ̃²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /væ̃⁵³/
Pingyao /uɑŋ⁵³/
Hohhot /væ̃⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /uø³⁵/
Suzhou /uø⁵¹/
Hangzhou /ʔuõ⁵³/
Wenzhou /j̠y³⁵/
Hui Shexian /uɛ³⁵/
Tunxi /uːə³¹/
Xiang Changsha /õ⁴¹/
Xiangtan /ɔn⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /uɵn²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /von³¹/
Taoyuan /von³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wun³⁵/
Nanning /wun³⁵/
Hong Kong /wun³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /uan⁵³/
/uã⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /uaŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /uiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /uã⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ua²¹³/
Rime
Character 碗
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 烏管切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔuɑnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔʷɑnX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔuɑnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔwanX/
Li
Rong		 /ʔuɑnX/
Wang
Li		 /uɑnX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔuɑnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wǎn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 碗
Reading # 1/1
No. 16272
Phonetic
component		 夗
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 椀
Old
Chinese		 /*qoːnʔ/
Notes 盌椀晚起字

Definitions

碗

  1. bowl   (Classifier: 個／个 m; 隻／只 c)
  2. bowl-like object
  3. Classifier for the quantity of a bowl: bowlful

Compounds

  • 七碗茶
  • 丟飯碗／丢饭碗
  • 五牲看碗
  • 供碗
  • 大盤大碗／大盘大碗
  • 大碗公
  • 打破飯碗／打破饭碗
  • 打碗頭／打碗头
  • 找飯碗／找饭碗
  • 折碗
  • 搶飯碗／抢饭碗
  • 泥飯碗／泥饭碗
  • 洗碗機／洗碗机 (xǐwǎnjī)
  • 海碗
  • 烘碗機／烘碗机
  • 瓷飯碗／瓷饭碗
  • 白定碗
  • 砸飯碗／砸饭碗
  • 碗公
  • 碗子
  • 碗盤／碗盘
  • 碗碗腔
  • 碗筷
  • 碗粿
  • 碗脫／碗脱
  • 碗足兒／碗足儿
  • 箸長碗短／箸长碗短
  • 紙飯碗／纸饭碗
  • 舔碗邊／舔碗边
  • 茶碗 (cháwǎn)
  • 蓋碗／盖碗
  • 金飯碗／金饭碗
  • 鍋碗瓢盆／锅碗瓢盆
  • 鐵飯碗／铁饭碗 (tiěfànwǎn)
  • 電碗／电碗
  • 飯碗／饭碗 (fànwǎn)

Japanese

Kanji

碗

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

碗 • ‎(wan) (hangeul 완, revised wan, McCune-Reischauer wan, Yale wan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

碗 (oản, uyển)

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