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漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

鍋: pot, pan

Also: kettle

N1 (our estimate)17 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

金 carries the meaning · 咼 is drawn in

17 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

なべnabe · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 鍋なべpan; pot; saucepan
  • もつ鍋もつなべhot pot stew made with offal, vegetables…
  • 土鍋どなべearthenware pot
  • 鍋物なべものstew; food cooked in a pot
  • 中華鍋ちゅうかなべwok; Chinese frying pan
  • 鍋料理なべりょうりhot pot cooking

Also read カ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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“Dig deep for treasure! This radical represents the metals that form the backbone of our technology and the "gold" that has served as a global standard of value for centuries.”
More in the 金 metal story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
金

Also built on metal (金)

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咼

Also built on 咼

Also read カ

44 kanji share this on'yomiAll 44

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
鍋 pot · 咼
vs錮 confinement · 固
鍋 has 咼 where 錮 has 固.
In ChineseSimplified 锅 · traditional, as in Japanese · guō

Japan keeps the traditional form 鍋; mainland China simplifies it to 锅.

Simplified
锅 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
鍋 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin guō 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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