鍋

See also: 锅

Translingual

Han character

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

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

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Chinese

trad.		鍋
simp.		锅

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
碢	*l'oːl
腡	*ɡ·roːl, *kʷroːl
過	*kloːl, *kloːls
渦	*kloːl, *qloːl
鍋	*kloːl
楇	*kloːl, *ɡloːls
瘑	*kloːl
緺	*koːl, *kroːl, *kʷroːl
堝	*kloːl
濄	*kloːl, *qloːl
鐹	*kloːlʔ, *kloːls
薖	*kʰloːl
簻	*kʰloːl, *kr'oːl
禍	*ɡloːlʔ
窩	*qloːl
萵	*qloːl
檛	*kr'oːl
膼	*kr'oːl
蝸	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
媧	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
騧	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
冎	*kroːlʔ
剮	*kroːlʔ
諣	*qʰroːls, *qʰʷroːls
歄	*kʷroːl
咼	*kʰʷroːl
喎	*kʰʷroːl

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

Etymology 1

“blame; fault"

Clipping of 黑鍋／黑锅.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guō (guo¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wo¹
• Northern Min (KCR): uá
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): e / er / oe / ko

  (Teochew, Peng'im): uê¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guō
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guo
    • Wade–Giles: kuo¹
    • Yale: gwō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guo
    • Palladius: го (go)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wo¹
    • Yale: wō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wo¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔː⁵⁵/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: uá
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ua⁵⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei, Magong, Hsinchu, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: e
    • Tâi-lô: e
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ef
    • IPA (Philippines): /e³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /e⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Lukang, Sanxia, Kinmen, Hsinchu)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: er
    • Tâi-lô: er
    • IPA (Kinmen): /ə⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Lukang): /ə³³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Yilan, Taichung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oe
    • Tâi-lô: ue
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oef
    • IPA (Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Yilan): /ue⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko
    • Tâi-lô: ko
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koy
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kɤ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ko³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /ko⁴⁴/

Note:

• e/er/oe - vernacular;
• ko - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: uê¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ue
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ue³³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 鍋
Mandarin	Beijing	/kuo⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/kuo⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/kuo²¹/
	Jinan	/kuə²¹³/
	Qingdao	/kuə²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/kuo²⁴/
	Xi'an	/kuo²¹/
	Xining	/ku⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/kuə⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/kuə³¹/
	Ürümqi	/kuɤ⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/kuo⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/ko⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/ko⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/ko⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/ko³¹/
	Hefei	/kʊ²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/kuɤ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/kuei¹³/
	Hohhot	/kuɤ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/ku⁵³/
	Suzhou	/kəu⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/ku³³/
	Wenzhou	/ku³³/
Hui	Shexian	/ko³¹/
	Tunxi	/o¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/ko³³/
	Xiangtan	/ko³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/uo⁴²/
Hakka	Meixian	/ko⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/wɔ⁵⁵/
	Nanning	/kɔ⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/wɔ⁵⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/ko⁵⁵/ /e⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/kuo⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/ua⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/ue³³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/ko²³/ /ʔdia²¹³/ 訓鼎

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• Middle Chinese: kwa

Rime
Character	鍋
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古禾切
Baxter	kwa
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/kuɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwa/
Li Rong	/kuɑ/
Wang Li	/kuɑ/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guō
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwo1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kloːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鍋
Reading #	1/1
No.	4364
Phonetic component	冎
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	戈
Old Chinese	/*kloːl/
Notes	見方言

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鍋

1. pot
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

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 鍋 – see 鐹 (“sickle”). (This character is a variant form of 鐹).

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

鍋

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

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

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

Kanji in this term
鍋
なべ Grade: S
kun'yomi

Originally a compound of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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 as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

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 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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 鍋 (oa)

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