Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• 𦈢

Japanese shinjitai Simplified from 罐 (elimination of 雚).

Han character

缶 (radical 121 缶+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人十山 (OJU), four-corner 8077₂)

1. earthen crock or jar (also used as a musical instrument in the court music of ancient China and the ritual music of Korea)
2. Kangxi radical #121, ⽸ ‎(“jar”).

Descendants

• 金 (simplified form used in some characters such as 鉢)

References

• KangXi: page 944, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28108
• Dae Jaweon: page 1385, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2935, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7F36

Chinese

Pronunciation

Definitions

缶

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 罐)

1. pot; can
2. tin can
3. container
4. jar radical (no. 121)

Readings

• On: かん (kan), (historical) くゎん (kwan); (Chinese-based readings seldom used in Japanese) ふ (fu), ふう (fū)
• Kun: かま (kama), ほとぎ (hotogi)
• Nanori: ふ (fu), べ (be)

Compounds

Etymology 1

Originally from Dutch kan ‎(“cylindrical metallic container”), with additional influence from English can ‎(“cylindrical metallic container”). The kanji is an example of ateji.

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• IPA^(key): /ka.ɴ/, [kã̠ɴ]

Alternative forms

• 鑵, カン

Noun

缶 ‎(hiragana かん, romaji kan)

1. a can, a tin

Etymology 2

From Old Japanese kama, signifying a container for high heat and referring variously to a hearth, oven, pot, kettle.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA^(key): /ka.ma/, [kämä]

Alternative forms

• 竈, 釜, 窯

Noun

缶 ‎(hiragana かま, romaji kama)

1. a boiler, as for a steam engine

Usage notes

For the boiler sense, this term kama is most often spelled using the kanji 缶.

Synonyms

• ボイラー ‎(boirā)

Korean

Hanja [漢字]

缶 • ‎(bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune-Reischauer pu, Yale pu)

장군 부 [janggun bu]

1. an earthern vessel that bulges in the middle and has a narrow mouth 2. referes to one of many types of the double-headed drums with a narrow waist in the middle 3. 洋甁, a glazed pot bulging in the middle with a narrow mouth 4. volume, capacity (=4斛) ^[1]

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Vietnamese

Han character

缶 (phẫu, phễu, quán, phữu)

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1. ↑ http://www.e-hanja.kr/