鍋

Translingual

Han character

鍋 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 金月月口 (CBBR), four-corner 8712₇, composition ⿰釒咼)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1313, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40603
• Dae Jaweon: page 1814, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4220, character 6
• Unihan data for U+934B

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kloːl) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 咼 (OC *kʰʷroːl).

Etymology 1

Area word; compare Proto-Palaungic *kʔɔɔl (“cooking pot”), Malay kuali (“cooking pot”) (Schuessler, 2007).

For the sense “blame; fault”, it is a clipping of 黑鍋／黑锅 (hēiguō).

Pronunciation

Definitions

鍋

1. cooking pot; pan; wok
2. (Mainland China, neologism) blame; fault

   我的鍋／我的锅  ―  wǒ de guō  ―  mea culpa; my bad

   甩鍋／甩锅  ―  shuǎi guō  ―  to deflect blame; to deny responsibility

Synonyms

Compounds

Etymology 2

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: か (ka)
• Kan-on: か (ka)
• Kun: なべ (nabe, 鍋, Jōyō)

Etymology

⟨nabe₂⟩ → */naⁿbe/ → /nabe/

From Old Japanese, first cited in the Nihon Shoki of 720. In turn, reconstructed as Proto-Japonic *nanpay.

Originally a compound of Old Japanese elements 肴 (na, “small snack, hors d'oeuvre”) +‎ 瓮 (pe, modern he, “a pot or pan for holding food or beverages”). The he changes to be as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) な​べ (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

鍋(なべ) • (nabe) 

1. a broad-bottomed pot or pan

   This term is less specific than English pot or pan, and can often be used to refer to either of these. The sample images in this entry illustrate some of the various items that can be called a nabe in Japanese.

2. short for 鍋料理 (nabe ryōri, literally “pot + cooking”) or 鍋物 (nabemono, literally “pot + thing”), a dish where everything is cooked together in a nabe; compare English hot pot or hotdish

   ⇒ 鍋料理 (nabe ryōri)

   ⇒ 鍋物 (nabemono)

3. by extension from the sense of someone working with pots and pans: a maidservant

   ⇒ 御鍋 (onabe)

4. (historical, slang) by further extension from the sense of maidservant: a woman (in reference to sex)
5. (historical, slang, archaic) during the late Edo period, a 搗米屋 (tsukigomeya, “rice polisher shop, white rice retailer”) who has run out of stock

Related terms

• 釜(かま) (kama): a big pot, a kettle or boiler
• 御釜(おかま) (okama): a maidservant; (slang) one's butt; (slang) a gay man
• 御鍋(おなべ) (onabe): a maidservant; nightwork; (slang) a lesbian

Descendants

• → Indonesian: nabe
• → Korean: 냄비 (naembi, “pan, saucepan; pot”)
• → Sakizaya: nabi

See also

• 鍋 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja
• nabe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Korean

Hanja

鍋 • (gwa) (hangeul 과, revised gwa, McCune–Reischauer kwa, Yale kwa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鍋: Hán Nôm readings: oa

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