鉢

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See also: 缽 and 钵
鉢 U+9262, 鉢
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9262
← 鉡
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鉣 →

Translingual

Traditional 缽
Shinjitai 鉢
Simplified 钵

Han character

鉢 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 金木一 (CDM), composition ⿰釒本)

  1. earthenware basin
  2. alms bowl (Sanskrit पात्र (pātra))

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1302, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40317
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1804, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4183, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+9262

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (本) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
本 *pɯːnʔ
笨 *pɯːnʔ, *bɯːnʔ
苯 *pɯːnʔ
翉 *pʰɯːnʔ
体 *bɯːnʔ
鉢 *poːd
缽 *poːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *poːd): semantic 金 (“gold”) + phonetic 本 (OC *pɯːnʔ)

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 鉢 – see 缽 (“monk's alms bowl; bowl; basin; pot”).
(This character is a variant form of 缽).

Japanese

Kanji

鉢

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. bowl; pot
  2. skull; cranium

Readings

  • Go-on: はち (hachi, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: はつ (hatsu, Jōyō †)

Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
鉢
はち
Grade: S
goon
Alternative spelling
盂 (rare)

From Sanskrit पात्र (pātra) through Middle Chinese 缽 (MC pat).

Pronunciation

Noun

鉢(はち) • (hachi) 

  1. flower pot
  2. bowl, basin, pot, skull
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
鉢
はち
Grade: S
goon
For pronunciation and definitions of 鉢 – see the following entry.
【鈸はち】H
Buddhist cymbals
(This term, 鉢, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

鉢 • (bal) (hangeul 발, revised bal, McCune–Reischauer pal, Yale pal)

  1. (바리때 발, barittae-): bowl (perhaps originally, Buddhist alms bowl)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

鉢: Hán Nôm readings: bát

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