鍋

See also 锅

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 咼

Han character

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

1. cooking-pot, saucepan

References

• KangXi: page 1313, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40603
• Dae Jaweon: page 1814, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4220, character 6
• Unihan data for U+934B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

鍋 (simplified 锅, Yale wo1)

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Japanese

Kanji

鍋 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: (rare) か (ka)
• Kun: なべ (nabe)

Etymology

鍋: traditional nabe (both the pot and the food)	土鍋 (donabe): traditional earthenware nabe
中華鍋 (chūka nabe): "Chinese nabe", a.k.a. wok	タジン鍋 (tajin nabe): a Moroccan tajine
火鍋 (hinabe): a fondue pot	スープ鍋 (sūpu nabe): a soup pot or stockpot

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

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA: [na̠be̞]

Noun

鍋 (hiragana なべ, romaji 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 at right illustrate some of the various items that can be called a nabe in Japanese.

2. short for 鍋物 (nabemono), a dish where everything is cooked together in a nabe; compare English hot pot or hotdish

   ⇒ 鍋物 (nabemono)

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

   ⇒ 御鍋 (onabe)

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

• Korean: 냄비 (naembi, “pan, saucepan; pot”)

See also

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鍋 (simplified 锅, pinyin guō (guo1), Wade-Giles kuo¹), guǒ

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Vietnamese

Han character

鍋 (oa)