缶

See also: 罐 and 击

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a pot with a lid.

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

缶 (radical 121 缶+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人十山 (OJU), four-corner 8077₂)

1. earthen crock or jar (also used as a musical instrument in the court music of ancient China and the ritual music of Korea)
2. rad. 121

Variant: 𦈢 (U+26222)

Descendants

• 金 (simplified form used in some characters such as 鉢)

References

• KangXi: page 944, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28108
• Dae Jaweon: page 1385, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2935, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7F36

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		缶

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fǒu (fou³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fau²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): fêu
• Min Nan (POJ): hiú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: fǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄡˇ
    • Wade-Giles: fou³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: foou
    • IPA ^(key): /foʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fau²
    • Yale: fáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fau²
    • IPA ^(key): /fɐu̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fêu
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /fe̯u²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiú
    • Tâi-lô: hiú
    • IPA (Taipei): /hiu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiu⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (缶, reconstructed)
Character (缶), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 幫 (1) Final: 尤 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 方久切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/pɨuX/	/pi̯ə̯uX/	/piuX/	/piuX/	/puwX/	/pĭəuX/	/piəuX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (缶, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
缶								fǒu								‹ pjuwX ›								/*p(r)uʔ/								earthenware
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
缶					3266					缶					幽					1					缶					/*puʔ/

References

• VoiceDic (汉语方言发音字典)

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Japanese

Kanji

缶

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. pot; can
2. tin can
3. container
4. jar radical (no. 121)

Readings

• On: かん (kan), (historical) くゎん (kwan); (Chinese-based readings seldom used in Japanese) ふ (fu), ふう (fū)
• Kun: かま (kama), ほとぎ (hotogi)
• Nanori: ふ (fu), べ (be)

Compounds

Compounds

缶詰 (かんづめ, kanzume): canned food; confinement for a particular purpose 缶詰業 (かんづめぎょう, kanzumegyō): the canning industry 缶詰業者 (かんづめぎょうしゃ, kanzume gyōsha): a canner, someone who cans as a business 缶詰工場 (かんづめこうじょう, kanzume kōjō): a cannery, a canning plant 缶詰食品 (かんづめしょくひん, kanzume shokuhin): canned food 缶石 (かんせき, kanseki): scale, lime and other deposits left behind in a boiler, kettle, or similar device 缶切り, 缶切 (かんきり, kankiri): a can opener 缶胴 (かまどう, kamadō): the boiler of a steam engine 缶焚き, 缶焚 (かまたき, kamataki): minding a boiler fire for a steam engine; a steam engine fireman, tender, or stoker 缶偏 (かまへん, kamahen): the Chinese character radical consisting of the 缶 character

Etymology 1

Originally from Dutch kan (“cylindrical metallic container”), with additional influence from English can (“cylindrical metallic container”). The kanji is an example of ateji.

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• IPA^(key): /ka.ɴ/, [kã̠ɴ]

Alternative forms

• 罐, 鑵, カン

Noun

缶 (hiragana かん, romaji kan)

1. a can, a tin

Etymology 2

From Old Japanese kama, signifying a container for high heat and referring variously to a hearth, oven, pot, kettle.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA^(key): /ka.ma/, [kämä]

Alternative forms

• 竈, 釜, 窯

Noun

缶 (hiragana かま, romaji kama)

1. a boiler, as for a steam engine

Usage notes

For the boiler sense, this term kama is most often spelled using the kanji 缶.

Synonyms

• ボイラー (boirā)

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Korean

Hanja

缶 (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune-Reischauer pu, Yale pu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

缶 (phữu, phẫu, phễu, quán)

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