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瓶: bottle, vial

Also: jar, jug, vat, urn

JLPT N211 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

瓦 carries the meaning · 并 gives the sound

11 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ビンbin · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 瓶びんbottle
  • 瓶詰めびんづめbottling, bottled
  • 花瓶かびんvase
  • 空き瓶あきびんempty bottle
  • 魔法瓶まほうびんthermos flask
  • 瓶詰びんづめbottling
  • 火炎瓶かえんびんMolotov cocktail; petrol bomb; gasoline bomb

Also read ヘイ, かめ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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“Merge/line up (并) + pottery (瓦). A pottery "jar" or "bottle" designed to hold liquids and be neatly "lined up" on a storage shelf.”
From the 瓦 tile story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
并

Also built on 并

瓶 takes the 并 family's reading, ヘイ (hei).

Also read ビン

3 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read ヘイ

15 kanji share this on'yomiAll 15
In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 甁 · píng

Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 瓶. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 甁.

Simplified
瓶 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
甁 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin píng most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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