碗

Translingual

Han character

碗 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一口十弓山 (MRJNU), four-corner 1361₂, composition ⿰石宛)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 832, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24306
• Dae Jaweon: page 1249, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2440, character 10
• Unihan data for U+7897

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Chinese

trad.		碗
simp. #		碗
alternative forms		盌 㼝 椀

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
涴	*qoːls, *qoːn, *qonʔ
埦	*qoːn
豌	*qoːn
剜	*qoːn
眢	*qoːn, *qon
蜿	*qoːn, *qon, *qonʔ
帵	*qoːn
碗	*qoːnʔ
椀	*qoːnʔ
盌	*qoːnʔ
腕	*qoːns
惋	*qoːns
捥	*qoːns
睕	*qoːns, *qonʔ, *qoːd
琬	*qoːns, *qonʔ
鴛	*quːn, *qon
鵷	*qon
惌	*qon, *qonʔ
宛	*qon, *qonʔ
怨	*qon, *qons
葾	*qon
夗	*qonʔ
婉	*qonʔ
菀	*qonʔ, *qud
苑	*qonʔ, *qons
踠	*qonʔ
畹	*qonʔ, *qons
倇	*qonʔ
晼	*qonʔ
黦	*qod, *qod, *qud
焥	*qoːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qoːnʔ) : semantic 石 (“stone”) + phonetic 宛 (OC *qon, *qonʔ).

Etymology

From 甌 (OC *qoː, “bowl”) + -n (“nominalizing suffix”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 碗

1. bowl (Classifier: 個／个 m c; 隻／只 c h; 塊／块 mn)

   洗碗  ―  xǐwǎn  ―  to wash the dishes

2. bowl-like object
3. Classifier for the quantity of a bowl: bowlful

   一碗米飯／一碗米饭  ―  yī wǎn mǐfàn  ―  a bowl of rice

   一碗粥 [Cantonese]  ―  jat¹ wun² zuk¹ [Jyutping]  ―  a bowl of congee

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

碗

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. porcelain bowl
2. teacup

Readings

• Go-on: わん (wan)
• Kan-on: わん (wan)
• Kun: こばち (kobachi, 碗)

Compounds

• 茶碗(ちゃわん) (chawan)

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Korean

Hanja

碗 • (wan) (hangeul 완, revised wan, McCune–Reischauer wan, Yale wan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 碗 (oản, uyển)

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