缶

See also: 罐 and 击

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

1. Kangxi radical #121, ⽸.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/缶

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		缶
alternative forms		𦈢 缻

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 缶
Shang	Spring and Autumn	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
寶	*puːʔ
珤	*puːʔ
缶	*puʔ
缹	*puʔ

Pictogram (象形) – a pot with a lid.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fǒu (fou³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fau²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fì

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fǒu
    • Wade–Giles: fou³
    • Yale: fǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: foou
    • Palladius: фоу (fou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /foʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fau²
    • Yale: fáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: feo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐu̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fì
    • Hakka Romanization System: fiˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fi²
    • Sinological IPA: /fi¹¹/

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• Middle Chinese: pjuwX

Rime
Character	缶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	方久切
Baxter	pjuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɨuX/
Pan Wuyun	/piuX/
Shao Rongfen	/piəuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puwX/
Li Rong	/piuX/
Wang Li	/pĭəuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯ə̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fǒu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fau2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*p(r)uʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*puʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	缶
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fǒu
Middle Chinese	‹ pjuwX ›
Old Chinese	/*p(r)uʔ/
English	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	缶
Reading #	1/1
No.	3266
Phonetic component	缶
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	缶
Old Chinese	/*puʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 缶

1. earthen pot or jar for storing an alcoholic drink
2. musical instrument for ritual music

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Shinjitai	缶
Kyūjitai	罐

Kanji

缶

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 罐)

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

Readings

• Go-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}; ふ (fu)
• Kan-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}; ふう (fū)
• Kun: かま (kama, 缶); ほとぎ (hotogi, 缶)
• Nanori: べ (be)

Compounds

Compounds

• 缶(かん)詰(づめ) (kanzume): canned food; confinement for a particular purpose
• 缶(かん)詰(づめ)業(ぎょう) (kanzumegyō): the canning industry
• 缶(かん)詰(づめ)業(ぎょう)者(しゃ) (kanzume gyōsha): a canner, someone who cans as a business
• 缶(かん)詰(づめ)工(こう)場(じょう) (kanzume kōjō): a cannery, a canning plant
• 缶(かん)詰(づめ)食(しょく)品(ひん) (kanzume shokuhin): canned food
• 缶(かん)石(せき) (kanseki): scale, lime and other deposits left behind in a boiler, kettle, or similar device
• 缶(かん)切(き)り (kankiri), 缶(かん)切(きり) (kankiri): a can opener
• 缶(かま)胴(どう) (kamadō): the boiler of a steam engine
• 缶(かま)焚(た)き (kamataki), 缶(かま)焚(たき) (kamataki): minding a boiler fire for a steam engine; a steam engine fireman, tender, or stoker
• 缶(かま)偏(へん) (kamahen): the Chinese character radical consisting of the 缶 character

Etymology 1

Originally from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch kan (“cylindrical metallic container”), with additional influence from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English can (“cylindrical metallic container”). The kanji is an example of ateji (当て字).

Alternative forms

• 鑵, カン

Noun

缶(かん) • (kan) 

1. a can, a tin

Counter

缶(かん) • (-kan) 

1. counter for canned goods

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Japanese kama, signifying a container for high heat and referring variously to a hearth, oven, pot, kettle.

Alternative forms

• 竈, 釜, 窯

Noun

缶(かま) • (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)

장군 부 [janggun bu]

1. an earthern vessel that bulges in the middle and has a narrow mouth
2. refers to one of many types of the double-headed drums with a narrow waist in the middle
3. 洋甁, a glazed pot bulging in the middle with a narrow mouth
4. volume, capacity (=4斛)
5. rad. 121

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 缶 (phẫu, phễu, quán, phữu)

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