漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
釜: kettle, cauldron
Also: iron pot
N1 (our estimate)10 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
父 and 金 carry the meaning
10 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
かまkama · kun'yomi · on its own
- 釜かまiron pot; kettle
- 後釜あとがまsuccessor; replacement
- お釜おかまpot
Also read フ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Gold/metal (金) + father (父). A sturdy, heavy metal "pot" used by the head of a prosperous household to feed a large family gathering.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side釜 kettle · 父
vs針 needle · 十In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · fǔ
Same form: 釜 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 釜 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 釜 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin fǔ 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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