釜

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See also: 釡
釜 U+91DC, 釜
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-91DC
← 釛
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 針 →

Translingual

Han character

釜 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+2, 10 strokes, cangjie input 金大一土金 (CKMGC), four-corner 80109, composition ⿱父⿻王丷)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1296, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40164
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1799, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2039, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+91DC

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 釜
alternative forms 釡
鬴
𨥏

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 釜
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (父) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
抪 *paː, *paːs
布 *paːs
佈 *paːs
怖 *pʰaːs
斧 *paʔ
父 *paʔ, *baʔ
蚥 *paʔ, *baʔ
滏 *baʔ
釜 *baʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *baʔ) : phonetic 父 (OC *paʔ, *baʔ) + semantic 金 (“metal”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 釜
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 扶雨切
Baxter bjuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/bɨoX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/bioX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/bioX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/buə̆X/
Li
Rong 		/bioX/
Wang
Li 		/bĭuX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/bʱi̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		fù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fu6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 釜
Reading # 1/1
No. 3503
Phonetic
component 		父
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		父
Old
Chinese 		/*baʔ/
Notes 同鬴

Definitions

釜

  1. cauldron; pot; kettle
  2. (obsolete) A measure of capacity.

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

釜

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. kettle, cauldron

Readings

  • Go-on: ぶ (bu)
  • Kan-on: ふ (fu)
  • Kun: かま (kama, 釜, Jōyō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
釜
かま
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Noun

釜(かま) • (kama) 

  1. an iron pot, a kettle

Derived terms

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 釜 (MC bjuX). Recorded as Middle Korean 부〯 (pwǔ) (Yale: pwu) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

釜 (eumhun 가마 부 (gama bu))

  1. hanja form? of 부 (“cauldron; pot”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

釜: Hán Nôm readings: phủ

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